Arthur Rundt

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Arthur Rundt (born August 14, 1881 in Katowice , Silesia , † April 1939 in New York ) was an author , journalist , director and theater director .

life and work

Arthur Rundt studied philosophy and law , he received his doctorate in 1904. The following year he worked as an actor at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , and in 1908 as a director there. In 1909 he moved to Vienna , where he worked for the Wiener Freie Volksbühne . When the First World War broke out, the association dissolved, and in 1915 Rundt reopened the venue in Vienna's seventh district . He and the writer and journalist Stefan Großmann , who at that time worked as a theater critic for the Arbeiter-Zeitung , took over the management of the theater .

During his time in Vienna, Arthur Rundt associated with Franz Blei , Oskar Maurus Fontana and Robert Musil, among others .

From 1924 he made numerous trips to America and Canada , initially as a correspondent for various newspapers . In 1926 his first America book America is Different was published . He also processed his impressions of American society in the serial novel Marylin , which appeared in the Neue Freie Presse from September 1928 . The novel, which was first published in book form by Edition Atelier in 2017 , is assigned to the New Objectivity and addresses racism in New York of the Jazz Age . Ralph Gerstenberg described the novel in a review on the radio station Deutschlandfunk as "unexpectedly topical". The journalist Peter Pisa also wrote in the Austrian daily newspaper Kurier , “The time for the book is good”.

Literature (selection)

  • Richard A. Bermann ; Arthur Rundt: Palestine: a travel book . Leipzig: Valley, 1923
  • The Palestine Picture Book . Photographs by Hans Casparius. Leipzig: Valley, 1934
  • America is different (travel book, illustrated by Tibor Gergely), Berlin: Wegweiser Verlag, 1926
  • Marylin (novel), as a serial in the Neue Freie Presse (September / October 1928); in book form, edited by Primus-Heinz Kucher, Vienna: Edition Atelier, 2017
  • Man is being rebuilt. A book on Russia , Berlin: Rowohlt, 1932
  • An hour of the gendarme. Rozsa Sandor, the robber chief. Accusation for a novel. In addition to some feature sections and reviews ed. by Robert Schmitt Scheubel with an afterword by Primus-Heinz Kucher, Berlin: entenpress, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evelyne Polt-Heinzl : Rundt, Arthur. In: litkult1920er.aau.at. University of Klagenfurt , accessed on December 17, 2016 (portrait and further information about Arthur Rundt as part of the project An Epoch Profile. Austrian Culture and Literature of the Twenties - transdisciplinary ).
  2. ↑ Arthur Rundt: "Marylin" - The ugly grimace of the New World. (Ralph Gerstenberg on the novel Marylin by Arthur Rundt on May 9, 2017)
  3. ^ Message in a bottle from Wetzelsdorf - Another forgotten: Arthur Rundt. (Peter Pisa on the novel Marylin by Arthur Rundt on February 9, 2017)

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personal data
SURNAME Rundt, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author, journalist, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 1939
Place of death new York