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Adolf Philipp was born in Hamburg, Germany.
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Adolf Philipp
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His early play, The Poor Nobleman, ran for a thousand nights in Vienna and was performed in major cities throughout Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1889 and became an American citizen on June 2, 1898. He developed an interest in portraying German-American life.
After founding the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Theater in Berlin, which enjoyed only limited success from 1904 to 1907, he cultivated a more receptive audience in New York City for his string of musical comedies and plays from 1907 to 1934, and in 1912 he opened the Adolf Philipp Theatre in Manhattan on East Fifty-Seventh Street.
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July 30, 1936 (aged 72) -
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