Alfred Kerr, born in Breslau in 1867, was a German-Jewish writer and journalist. He wrote for Der Tag, the Breslauer Zeitung, the Berliner Tageblatt and the Frankfurter Zeitung and was editor of the art magazine Pan. Kerr, known for his ironic, terse, film-like style and his long-running dispute with Karl Kraus, was one of the most influential theater critics of his time until the Nazis came to power. He wrote books on drama, travel stories from Corsica and Algeria, as well as Yankee Land - a journey through America and Walther Rathenau. Memoirs of a Friend. In 1933, after the book burning, he fled to Prague and then to London. He died in 1948 during a lecture tour in Hamburg. This book was written after a trip after the First World War.