Bruno Frei

Bruno Frei (born June 11, 1897 as Benedikt Freistadt in Preßburg , Austria-Hungary ; died May 21, 1988 in Klosterneuburg , Austria ), also Karl Franz , was a political journalist , publicist , author and Marxist .

Life

Bruno Frei gained his first journalistic experience in 1917 in the left-liberal Viennese newspaper Der Abend . In 1920 Frei received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna . He then worked as the foreign correspondent for the evening in Berlin, where he met Egon Erwin Kisch and Anton Kuh in the Romanisches Café . From 1929 he published on behalf of Willi Munzenberg Berlin am Morgen , a daily newspaper aimed at a broad readership . Numerous authors from the left spectrum found a publication opportunity here.

After the Reichstag fire , Frei emigrated to Prague , where he was editor-in-chief of the Communist -style weekly newspaper Der Gegen-Attack , which appeared from the end of April 1933 to March 14, 1936. The name was a response to Goebbels newspaper attack . After Frei was later forced to emigrate to France, he was interned in the notorious Pyrenees camp Le Vernet until he managed to emigrate to Mexico in 1941 thanks to the efforts of the Mexican consul general in Marseille, Gilberto Bosques .

Frei was a co-founder of the exile newspaper Free Germany , which was published in Mexican exile, and after the break with the German communists in exile in Mexico, he co-founded the magazine Austria Libre with Leo Katz and a member of the Acción Republicana Austriaca en México . He returned to Vienna in April 1947 . In 1948 he took over the editor-in-chief of the newly founded daily newspaper Der Abend , which appeared in the communist Globus publishing house and was discontinued in September 1956. He developed a broad journalistic activity. Together with Ernst Fischer and Viktor Matejka, he published the communist cultural and intellectual journal Tagebuch , of which he was editor-in-chief until 1964. At the end of the 1950s, Frei reported as a foreign correspondent from China for the KPÖ central organ Volksstimme . In 1972 his autobiography Der Papiersäbel was published by S. Fischer Verlag (reviewed by Jean Améry in Die Zeit ). Bruno Frei died on May 21, 1988 at the age of 91 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna.

Works

• Viennese housing misery. Vienna: Anzengruber-Verlag 1918.
• Conversation about happiness. Essay. Leipzig, Vienna: Suschitzky 1920.
• Jewish misery in Vienna. Images and data. Vienna u. a .: Löwit 1920.
• The misery of Vienna. Social study. Vienna, Leipzig: Verlag der Wiener Graphischen Werkstätte 1921.
• The red sailors from Cattaro. Report. Vienna: Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung 1927.
• In the land of red power. A Soviet Russian picture sheet. Berlin: New German Publishing House 1929.
• Hitler over Germany. And how it came about ... Prague: Haken 1933.
• Hanussen . A report. Strasbourg: Sebastian Brant Verlag 1934.
• The men of Vernet. A factual report. Berlin: Dietz-Verlag 1950.
• With your own eyes. Reports; Construction Publishing House Berlin 1955.
• The big leap. China today. Construction Publishing House Berlin 1959.
• The relay. Historical miniatures. Construction Publishing House Berlin 1959.
• The sailors from Cattaro. An episode from the revolutionary year 1918. Globus-Verlag Vienna 1963.
• Israel between the fronts. Utopia and reality. Vienna u. a .: Europa-Verlag 1965.
• Carl von Ossietzky, A Political Biography. Berlin: The Arsenal. Publishing house for culture and politics 1966.
• Carl von Ossietzky. Writings in two volumes, ed. by Bruno Frei and Hans Leonard. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 1966.
• The anarchist utopia. Freedom and order. Vienna: Globus-Verlag 1971.
• The paper saber. An autobiography. Frankfurt / M .: S. Fischer Verlag 1972.
• On the critique of social utopia. Frankfurt / M .: S. Fischer Verlag 1973.
• The little resistance. Vienna: Sensen-Verlag 1978.

Publications in other publications:

• The blind beggar from the product exchange and intellectual unemployment. In: Ruth Beckermann (ed.): The Mazzesinsel - Jews in Vienna's Leopoldstadt 1918-38. Vienna: Löcker Verlag 1984.

literature

• Free, Bruno. In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. Leipzig 1964, pp. 165–168 (bibliography p. 167 f.)
• The Bruno Frei (1897–1988) collection. Vienna 1996.

Radio reports (podcast)

• Wolfgang Kos (designer): stories and history. Autobiographical statements by Bruno Frei , on the ORF radio station Ö1 on January 3, 1979, archives of the Austrian media library

Web links

• in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library Vienna
• Bruno Frei in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library
• Literature by and about Bruno Frei in the catalog of the German National Library
• University of Potsdam: Bruno Frei - short biography
• Entry at litkult1920er.aau.at , a project of the University of Klagenfurt
• Bruno Frei: On the national consciousness of the Austrians (written 1946)
• Available in the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance DÖW; two letters, request from publisher Willy Sales , Jerusalem, to Frei in Mexico about the establishment of a monthly Erbe und Zukunft , which Frei should direct. Correspondence 1945–1946

Individual evidence

1. ^ Benedikt Freistadt (pseudonym: Bruno Frei) , Katharina Kniefacz, i. A. Contemporary history University of Vienna
2. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archive of the University of Vienna, Volume 974 30 June 1920  
3. ↑ Michel Grunewald: Criticism and Political Struggle: The Case ‹The Counterattack› . In Hélène Roussel; Lutz Winckler (Ed.): Deutsche Exilpresse and France, 1933–1940 . Lang, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-261-04491-8 , pp. 237-246.