Alfred Klaar

Alfred Klaar (7 November 1848 – 4 November 1927) was a Czech writer and theater critic.

Biography Alfred Klaar was born as Aaron Karpeles on 7 November 1848 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He was born into a Jewish family, but converted to Catholicism and changed his name in 1887. In Berlin, he became a theater editor for the Berliner Neueste Nachrichten [ de].

Publications

Die Litteratur des Auslandes (1873) Jos. Victor Scheffel (1876) Fahrende Komödianten (1876) Joseph II (c.1880) Das Moderne Drama, Dargestellt in Seinen Richtungen und Hauptvertretern (1883–84) Der Empfang (1888) Diskretion (c.1890) Wer Schimpft der Kauft (c.1890) Franz Grillparzer als Dramatiker (1891) F. Schmeykal (c.1894) Börne's Leben und Wirken (c.1899) Der Faustcyclus (c.1899)