Paul Frischauer

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Paul Frischauer (born May 25, 1898 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 7, 1977 in Vienna) was an Austrian novelist and journalist .

Life

Paul Frischauer's grave
Margaret Goldsmith 's translation (1935)

Paul Frischauer was the son of a publishing family. His father was the editor of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt ; his mother came from the publishing family of the Wiener Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung . Frischauer studied history and political science in Vienna.

In 1924 his drama Im Dunkel was performed in Vienna. He published feature articles and short stories in Viennese newspapers, in the Berliner Tageblatt and in the Vossische Zeitung . As a novelist, he focused on historical novels such as Dürer and Prinz Eugen , which were published by Paul Zsolnay Verlag and achieved some success in the 1920s and early 1930s.

In 1933 at the meeting of the Austrian PEN in Ragusa , he took a stand against the pro-German (National Socialist) position of the Austrian PEN delegate Grete von Urbanitzky . In 1934, as an opponent of the National Socialists , he emigrated from Austrofascist Austria, first to Great Britain and from there to Brazil in 1940, where he received citizenship in 1944. His brother Willi Frischauer also emigrated to Great Britain. In contrast to Paul, he was able to change his language completely and was successful as an English society journalist. His parents could not decide to emigrate and were victims of the Holocaust in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 .

Frischauer went to the United States in 1945 and worked briefly as a ghostwriter on Alma Mahler-Werfel's autobiography before falling out over her anti-Semitism . In 1957 he returned to Austria.

In exile he wrote a novel about Beaumarchais and the Napoleonic period, as well as about the Habsburgs . After his return to Austria he wrote non-fiction books such as world history in novels , Knaur's moral history of the world and morality and immorality of German women for German-speaking book clubs .

In 1921 Frischauer married the writer Alma Wittlin , the marriage lasted de facto until 1930, de jure (divorce) until 1932. Alma was the younger sister of Józef Wittlin , with whom Frischauer was close friends. In 1958 he was the fourth marriage in Mexico to the Viennese actress Gabriele Philipp, who soon also wrote historical novels under the pseudonym Gaby von Schönthan , after her great-grandfather Franz von Schönthan .

Frischauer was buried in the Döblinger Friedhof (group 32, number 29) in Vienna.

Works (selection)

  • In the dark . Drama. 1924
  • The Countess Dubarry's Secret Memories . Vienna: Karl König, 1924
  • Dürer . Vienna: P. Zsolnay, 1925
  • Ravaillac or the Assassination of a King . Vienna: P. Zsolnay, 1926
  • The heart on sale . Vienna: P. Zsolnay, 1929
  • The profit . Berlin: Zsolnay, 1932
  • Prince Eugene . Berlin: Zsolnay, 1933
  • Garibaldi . Zurich: Library of Contemporary Works, 1934
  • Beaumarchais: the adventurer in the century of women . Zurich: Library of Contemporary Works, 1935
  • A great lord . Translation from the German Phyllis Blewitt, Trevor Blewitt. London: Cassell, 1937
  • England's years of danger: a new history of the world war 1792 - 1815 dramatised in documents . New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1938
  • The imperial crown: the story of the rise and fall of the Holy Roman and the Austrian empires . Translation by H. Leigh Farnell. London: Cassell, 1939
  • Presidente Vargas . Translation into Portuguese Mário da Silva, Brutus Pedreira. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1943
  • So great a queen: the story of Esther, queen of Persia . New York, NY: Scribner, 1950
  • The foreign queen: a historical novel . Munich: Kindler, 1959
  • Cast your shadow, sun: Leonardo da Vinci. Novel . Berlin: Herbig, 1974 ISBN 978-3-7766-0665-2

literature

  • Ursula Prutsch and Klaus Zeyringer : The Worlds of Paul Frischauer: A “literary adventurer” in a historical context: Vienna - London - Rio - New York - Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98748-9 (online at Google Books )
  • Ursula Prutsch: Paul Frischauer: Austrian writer and British secret agent , in: Charmian Brinson (Ed.): No complaint about England? : German and Austrian exile experiences in Great Britain 1933–1945 . Munich: iudicium, 1998, pp. 276–285
  • Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler : The exile literature and the exile of the German-speaking writers and publicists in Brazil . Peter Lang, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-631-45160-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Worlds, p. 285
  2. ↑ Gaby von Schönthan, portrait at AVA-Verlag ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ava-international.de
personal data
SURNAME Frischauer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Roman author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1977
Place of death Vienna