Jackson, Felix

Born Felix Joachimson in Germany in 1902, Jackson was a music critic and writer in 1920's Berlin, when he met Kurt Weill. They collaborated on an opera entitled Na und?, now lost, and became fast friends. Jackson moved to the United States in the late 1930's and pursued a successful career in films (most notably as the screenwriter for Destry rides again). In the 1970's he wrote an unpublished biography of Kurt Weill. He died in 1992.

From the description of An oral history interview with Felix Jackson / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich and Kim Kowalke, Los Angeles, 1979(?) : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 122612273

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