Ludwig Anton

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Ludwig Anton (born Sigmund Krauss July 26, 1872 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 8, 1941 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer and doctor.

Life

Krauss was of Jewish origin. He studied medicine in his hometown of Vienna and worked as a doctor in Baden near Vienna. In addition to some dramas, comedies and occult adventure novels, he also wrote the early utopian novel Brücken über dem Weltraum under his pseudonym Ludwig Anton , which depicts a first space flight to Venus and which remained relatively unknown in the German-speaking world. Hugo Gernsback had the book translated for his Wonder Stories Quarterly series , where it was published in the winter of 1933 under the title Interplanetary Bridges .

His daughters Alice Penkala and Edith Krausz were also active in literature.

plant

  • How the war ended and other stories . Vienna: Karl Harbauer, 1919
  • Then self-defense , drama (with J. Ferch). Vienna: Max Pfeffer, 1921. Performance in the Kommödienhaus Vienna.
  • The strawberry , comedy (with W. Altmann). 1921
  • Bridges across space. A novel of the German future . Bad Rothenfelde: Holzwarth, 1922
  • The Japanese plague . Novel. Bad Rothenfelde: Holzwarth, 1922
  • Paradise lost . Novel. Braunschweig: Westermann, 1923
  • The Kiek , Roman. Bad Rothenfelde: Holzwarth, 1925
  • The man in the shadows , Roman. Braunschweig: Westermann, 1926
  • Poison from America. A Viennese adventure novel . Regensburg: Manz, 1933

literature

  • Detlef Münch (ed.): The war of the future 100 years ago . Volume: 2 The World War 1914–1918. War and anti-war utopias by Ludwig Anton, Friedrich Otto, Adolf Stein a. a. 5 forgotten classic German science fiction stories (=  contributions to the bibliography and review of the German science fiction . Volume 10 ). Synergen-Verlag, Dortmund 2007, ISBN 978-3-935634-66-3 .
  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 19.
  • Anton, Ludwig. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 168-169.

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personal data
SURNAME Anton, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, Sigmund (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1941
Place of death Vienna