Robert Lucas (writer)
Robert Lucas (actually: Robert Ehrenzweig , another pseudonym: Neon ; born May 8, 1904 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † January 19, 1984 in London ) was an Austrian writer and cabaret artist.
Life
Robert Ehrenzweig, son of Sigmund and Emma, b. Robinsohn, studied chemistry and physics at the Technical University and the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He initially worked as a chemist and worked for the socialist education center. 1928 to 1933 together with Victor Grünbaum , Jura Soyfer , Karl Bittmann and Ludwig Wagner, director and author of the political cabaret , which is politically close to the social democracy . In 1929 he became a member of the SDAP . From the beginning of the 1930s he was an editor at Vorwärts-Verlag and from 1932–33 publisher of the Politische Bühne . In 1933 he was a member of the Association of Socialist Writers .
In 1934, as a socialist and Jew, he had to leave Austria and emigrated to London. Here he was initially a correspondent for the Neue Freie Presse . After it was taken over by the National Socialists in 1938, he became an employee of the German Service of the BBC , where he worked until 1967, but also wrote features and radio plays for other broadcasters. 1959–1974 he also worked for Die Zeit .
Lucas became known through the so-called "brain-scarf letters". The private brain scarf was a fictional character that Lucas had already developed for political cabaret based on the model of Jaroslav Hašeks Schwejk . From 1940 until the end of the war, Lucas wrote one hundred broadcast satirical letters to his wife Amalie of this brainshell, which was now drafted for military service. The speaker was the emigrated Viennese actor Fritz Schrecker .
Awards
- Member of the Order of the British Empire (1966)
- Gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria (year of award unknown)
Works
- Adolf Hirnschal, private in Russia . 1943
- Dear Amalia beloved woman! Corporal Adolf Hirnschal's letters to his wife in Zwieselsdorf Europa Verlag Zurich 1946
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Corporal Brainscarf's letters. BBC radio satires 1940-1945 . Edited and with an afterword by Uwe Naumann. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1984, ISBN 978-3-596-25177-3 .
New edition:
The BBC against Hitler. Corporal Adolf Hirnschal's letters to his wife in Zwieselsdorf . Europa-Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-905811-03-2 .
literature
- Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . In collaboration with Evelyn Adunka , Nina Jakl and Ulrike Oedl. Deuticke, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-216-30548-0 , pp. 459f.
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 870.
- Miriam Kruppa: Satire and National Socialism. Robert Lucas letters from Private Hirnschal to his wife in Zwieselsdorf . 2002.
- Jennifer Taylor: The 'End Sieg' as Ever-Receding Goal. Literary Propaganda by Bruno Adler and Robert Lucas for BBC Radio. In: Ian Wallace (Ed.): German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain. Rodopi, Amsterdam a. Atlanta 1999. (= The Yearbook of the Research Center for German and Austrian Exile Studies. 1.) ISBN 90-420-0415-0 , ISSN 1388-3720 , pp. 43-57.
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Lucas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nikolaus Scholz: chroniclers, reporters, educators - Robert Lucas. In: Austria's word. ORF, August 3, 2002, accessed on March 23, 2013 (biography with voice recording).
- Entry on Robert Ehrenzweig at litkult1920er.aau.at , a project of the University of Klagenfurt
- Entry in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Oedl, Theater im Exil - Österreichisches Exiltheater sbg ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lucas, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ehrenzweig, Robert (real name); Neon (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-British writer and cabaret artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1984 |
Place of death | London |