Julia Kerr (28 August 1898 – 3 October 1965) was a German composer and pianist.

Kerr was born in Wiesbaden on 28 August 1898 as Julia Anna Franziska Weismann to the Prussian prosecutor Robert Weismann and his wife Gertrud, née Reichenheim.

Initially they fled to Switzerland and then France before settling in England in 1935.

In London, Kerr worked in secretarial jobs until the end of the war.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] Kerr's first opera was Die schoene Lau after a fairy tale by Eduard Mörike, first performed in 1928[7] In 1929 Alfred started to write the libretto for her second opera Der Chronoplan [8] which was delayed due to her emigration.