He also worked as a freelance journalist for newspapers such as the Hebrew "Haaretz", and starting in 1931 – under a permanent appointment – with the Hamburg-based "Israelitisches Familienblatt". This paper presented in its cultural insert music, performing and visual art by examples of creative works by Jewish artists. Four to five evenings of the week Carlebach went to the theatre and afterwards composed his reviews, dictating them – freely phrasing – to his assistant Ruth Heinsohn, who right away typed them.