Frank Jellinek

Frank Jellinek (* 1908 ; † 1975 ) was an American journalist and writer.

Life and activity

In the early 1930s, Jellinek wrote for the communist newspaper Labor Monthly .

Jellinek was the Manchester Guardian's correspondent in the Republican-controlled part of the country during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 . In 1938 he published a book about this war that was highly regarded at the time. This was discussed by George Orwell , among others .

At the end of 1937 he went to Mexico, from where he reported for ten years for the Manchester Guardian and the New York newspaper PM as well as the Federated Press agency as a correspondent. In Mexico he met repeatedly with the former Soviet politician Leon Trotsky , whom he had just before his assassination in 1940.

The National Socialist police officers classified Jellinek as an enemy of the state: in the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office - which mistakenly suspected him to be in Great Britain - placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be killed in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the Wehrmacht SS special commandos that followed the occupation troops should move into the country, should be located and arrested with special priority.

From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jellinek made numerous translations of works by well-known authors, such as B. Michel Foucault , into English.

Fonts

• The Paris Commune of 1871 , London 1937.
• Civil War in Spain , London 1938.

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Jellinek in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Spain. The True and the False", review of Jellinek's The Civil War in Spain , in: The New Leader of July 8, 1938
2. ↑ hitlers-black-book entry on Jellinek on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).