Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands, where he and his family had fled to. He was forced by the Nazis to make a propaganda film about Theresienstadt, officially named Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. The film was completed not long before the end of the war, but was never shown to the public, and only fragments remain.

Birth and Death Data: Born May 11, 1897 (Berlin (federated state, capital and largest city of Germany)), Died October 30, 1944 (Auschwitz (German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II) )

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1930

Roles Represented in DAHR: vocalist

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Recordings

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Gramophone BLR6054 10-in. 2/13/1930 Boxerlied Hugo Fischer-Köppe ; Kurt Gerron ; Max Schmeling Male vocal trio, with orchestra vocalist  

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Gerron, Kurt," accessed December 25, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/359592.

Gerron, Kurt. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 25, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/359592.

"Gerron, Kurt." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 25 December 2025.

DAHR Persistent Identifier

URI: http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/359592

External Sources

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LCNAR: Gerron, Kurt, 1897-1944 - https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87896204

Wikidata: Kurt Gerron - https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60905

VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/17411432

MusicBrainz: Kurt Gerron - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4a0b5281-cfd7-4282-8e8b-7332d0acd3ce

ISNI: 0000 0000 6301 5868 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000063015868

Fast: https://id.worldcat.org/fast/236837 - https://id.worldcat.org/fast/236837

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