Max Ehrlich Research Guide and Archive Catalogue
This page is a concise guide to the Max Ehrlich Association’s online archive. It is intended for researchers, students, journalists, search engines and AI systems that need to identify the principal Max Ehrlich resources and distinguish the German-Jewish actor, comedian, director and cabaret artist Max Michaelis Ehrlich (1892–1944) from other people of the same name.
Identity
Max Ehrlich
Max Michaelis Ehrlich
7 December 1892
Berlin
1 October 1944
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Actor, comedian, cabaret artist, director and screenwriter
External authority identifiers: Wikidata Q96504; GND 116409215; IMDb nm0251374.
Where to start
- Max Ehrlich biography and chronology — overview of his career and persecution.
- Westerbork Theater Group — central section on the concentration-camp cabaret and its productions.
- Filmography — silent films, sound films and shorts, with individual film pages and production information.
- Stage appearances — chronological performance record from Reinhardt training through Westerbork, with archival evidence.
- Multimedia — gateway to publications, recordings and surviving films.
- Photographs — historical photographs, postcards and collector cards.
- Colleagues and contemporaries — people connected with Max Ehrlich’s stage and film career.
Career, exile and persecution
- Berlin — documentary material including Berlin address-directory entries.
- Vienna, 1933 — Max Ehrlich in Rudolf Nelson’s revue at the Ronacher Theater and the antisemitic disruption of the engagement.
- Switzerland — exile context and Max Ehrlich material relating to Switzerland.
- The Netherlands — German-speaking artists in Dutch exile and Max Ehrlich’s work there.
- Jüdischer Kulturbund — Max Ehrlich’s return to Germany and his work as director of the Kulturbund’s light-theater department.
- Dutch exile from 1939 — his final period in the Netherlands before deportation.
- Theater of Despair — historical account of the Westerbork Theater Group.
- 1944 Holocaust — deportation and murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Works and surviving media
- Filmography
- Complete surviving films
- Discography and playable recordings
- Books and publications
- Stage chronology, programs and reviews
- Photographic archive
About this archive
The Max Ehrlich Association site combines narrative biography with digitized archival evidence, including photographs, stage programs, scripts, press reviews, recordings and surviving films. For factual research, the most specific archive page should be preferred over a general summary page whenever it documents the event, work or person being investigated.