Robert Braun (writer)

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Robert Braun (born March 2, 1896 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 16, 1972 in Sweden ; pseudonym Robert Montis ) was an Austrian poet, essayist and librarian.

Life

Robert Braun was the younger half-brother of the Austrian writers Felix Braun and Käthe Braun-Prager .

Braun was born in Vienna. After attending school and graduating from high school in 1915, he studied chemistry. He was a soldier in the First World War . He then worked as a food chemist in industry. In 1917 he left the Jewish community in Vienna and was baptized in the Catholic Church in 1934. From 1925 he worked as a freelance writer and worked as a freelancer for radio and newspapers. Braun also had to emigrate before the National Socialists. With the support of the Gildemeester campaign , in September 1938 he and his wife Ottilie Braun, nee. Wegscheider and daughter Hilde escaped to Sweden. From autumn 1939 he worked as a farm worker near Stockholm and lived in Uppsala from 1942. From 1943 until his retirement in 1965 he was a librarian at the Art History Institute of Uppsala University . In 1954 Robert Braun became a member of the PEN Club .

Through his brother Felix Braun he made the acquaintance of Hans Carossa , Arthur Schnitzler , Jakob Wassermann and Stefan Zweig , with whom he maintained close contact among others in his circle of friends.

Works (selection)

  • Walk in the night - poems with illustrations, Dreiländerverlag, Munich / Vienna / Zurich, 1919
  • Battle for the Mountain - (under the pseudonym Robert Montis) historical mountain drives, 1937
  • Josephine of Sweden - Amandus, Vienna, 1948, 373 pages
  • The word found again - Selected small prose, Volume 16, New Poetry from Austria, Bergland Verlag, 1956
  • The mother of the refugees - Roman, Stiasny Graz / Vienna, 1961, 528 pages
  • Walking and Walking in Vienna - Poems, Volume 131/132, Bergland, Vienna, 1966
  • What is actually going on in Sweden? - Analysis and criticism of a de-Christianization, Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1967
  • Farewell to the Vienna Woods - A commitment to life, Styria Verlag, 1971, 166 pages

Published in Swedish:

  • Vad händer i Sverige (What is actually going on in Sweden) - Stockholm, Pro veritate, 1970
  • I skuggar av Wienerwald (Farewell to the Vienna Woods) - Stockholm, Norstedt, 1969
  • Silvertronen (Josephine of Sweden) - Stockholm, Norlin, 1950

Honors

  • Emil Reich Prize for Poetry 1928
  • Member of the PEN Club since 1954
  • Austrian professor title 1963

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montis, Robert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1972
Place of death Sweden