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Ilse Barea-Kulcsar (born September 20, 1902 in Vienna as Ilse Pollak ; † January 1, 1973 ibid) was an Austrian journalist , volunteer in the Spanish civil war and author .

life and work

Ilse Pollak was born in September 1902 in Vienna as the daughter of high school professor Valentin Pollak and his wife Alice von Zieglmayer. In her youth she belonged to the Socialist Workers 'Youth , the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP), the Communist Youth Association and the KPÖ . In 1922 she married Leopold Kulcsar, who was two years her senior . After leaving the KPÖ, she returned to the SDAP in 1926. From 1933 she became active in the group new beginnings . In 1934 she traveled to Czechoslovakia with her husband . After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , the two traveled from Brno to Spain via Paris in October 1936 . There Ilse Kulcsar became head of the censorship office for the foreign press in Madrid , where she met the Spanish writer Arturo Barea . Faced with the impending defeat, she and her husband left Spain and went to France in 1938 . Leopold Kulcsar died there on January 28, 1938 of kidney disease in Paris. After the death of her husband, she married Barea and followed him into exile in England in 1939. There she worked for the listening service of the BBC and was active as a journalist, including as a translator. In 1965, now widowed, she returned to Austria and settled in Vienna. She worked for the newspapers of the ÖGB and acted as an education functionary for the SPÖ.

Fonts

  • The Great Powers of Finance and Industry: Competition and Monopoly in Modern Capitalism (1930)
  • Spain in the Post-War World (with Arturo Barea, 1945)
  • Telefónica (novel, March 13 to June 4, 1949 in the Arbeiter-Zeitung , Edition Atelier ), Vienna: Edition Atelier, [2019], ISBN 978-3-99065-017-2
  • Vienna. Legend and Reality (1966)

literature

  • Amanda Vaill: Hotel Florida. Truth, Love and Treason in the Spanish Civil War. Translated from the English by Susanne Held. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-60894-915-5 .
  • Edgar Schütz: Austrian journalists and publicists in the Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939. Media policy and press of the international brigades. Series: Österreichische Kulturforschung Vol. 20, 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-50759-4
  • Georg Pichler: Austrian alphabet: Ilsa Barea-Kulcsar (1902-1973) in: Literature and Criticism 537/538 pp. 101ff, Salzburg, September 2019

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Herbert Zeman: The Austrian Literature (1989)
  2. ↑ Doris Ingrisch, Ilse Erika Korotin, Charlotte Zwiauer: The Revolutionization of Everyday Life (2004)
  3. ^ A b "Kulcsar, Leopold" (1900–1938) , in: Spain archive online of the DÖW .
  4. ^ Otto Leichter: Between two dictatorships (1968, p. 112)
  5. ↑ https://www.editionatelier.at/titel/telefonica/ , information on the publisher's website
personal data
SURNAME Barea-Kulcsar, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollak, Ilse (maiden name); Kulcsar, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, author and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1973
Place of death Vienna