Alfred Bratt
Alfred Bratt (* 1891 in Vienna ; † July 14, 1918 in Berlin ) was an Austrian author , dramaturge and editor .
life and work
Alfred Bratt was born in Vienna in 1891 as the son of the well-known Viennese court attorney Jakob Bratt and Antoinette Eisenstein. The family lived in the second district of Vienna . At the age of 18, Alfred Bratt went to Berlin, where he was able to make contact with the cultural and literary bohemia within a short period of time . Soon he was a regular and welcome guest in the Café des Westens , where a regulars' table was established around Else Lasker-Schüler , Max Reinhardt , Erich Mühsam and others. At first Alfred Bratt tried to gain a foothold as an actor , later he also worked as a dramaturge.
From 1912 Alfred Bratt published short stories in various newspapers . During the First World War he became an editor at Erich Reiss Verlag . During this time he also wrote his first novel, Die Welt ohne Hunger , which was first published in 1916 by Erich Reiss Verlag. In the novel, Bratt tells of the inventor Alfred Bell and his research for a food cube that could feed the entire world population without much effort and expense . The book was a great success; Within a very short time, several editions and translations into various languages appeared. He was unable to finish another manuscript; At the age of 27, Alfred Bratt fell ill with bilateral pneumonia and died a little later in Berlin. After his death, The World Without Hunger was long forgotten; In March 2018 a new edition was published by Edition Atelier , a publisher in Vienna .
filming
The short story The Man with the Seven Faces by Alfred Bratt was filmed in 1913 by Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH . His book Die Welt ohne Hunger (The World Without Hunger) was filmed by Rudolf Dworsky in 1920.
Press reviews
"A brilliant style, splendid ingenuity and pictorial power characterize this book."
“This book… has much more thought content than so many other books, it stands, even if it is a utopia, in so many respects on absolutely real ground, it deals above all with such a topical question of humanity - the nutrition of the world - that one You can count on it to arouse the significant interest it deserves everywhere. "
"A timeless novel, more than 800 million people are still starving."
"High literary quality, exciting and up to date to this day"
literature
- Alfred Bratt, Armin Wassermann: The man on the swing: comedy in 3 acts. Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1913.
- Alfred Bratt: The world without hunger. Erich Reiss Verlag , Berlin 1916.
- Alfred Bratt: The world without hunger. Edition Atelier , Vienna 2018 (illustrated new edition), ISBN 978-3-903005-38-9 .
Web links
- Alfred Bratt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Alfred Bratt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bratt short biography on the Edition Atelier page. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e The world without hunger Article on the Edition Atelier page. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bratt, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author, dramaturge and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1918 |
| Place of death | Berlin |