%0 Journal Article
%A Ruth V. Gross
%D 2021
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%J literatur für leser:innen
%@ 0343-1657
%N 3
%V 40
%T Hermann Leopoldi: Vienna’s “Grosser Bernhardiner”
%R 10.3726/LFL032017k_233
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1157041
%X The date was October 10, 1942. The 2,500 seats in Orchestra Hall in Chicago were sold out with mostly German-speaking concertgoers, both longtime residents and more recently arrived immigrants (or refugees, as they were called at the time). The event was a concert by Hermann Leopoldi, “Vienna’s most popular entertainer” as the playbill touted