Rudolf Brunngraber

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Rudolf Brunngraber (born September 20, 1901 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † April 5, 1960 there ) was an Austrian writer , journalist and painter .

Life

Brunngraber came from a proletarian milieu, he was the son of a bricklayer in the Vienna working class district of Favoriten . After completing the teacher training college, Brunngraber attended the Vienna Academy for Applied Arts . Brunngraber, who had been close to social democracy since his youth, subsequently worked as a commercial artist and in a number of other professions, but also dealt with social statistics. In 1932 his first novel, "Karl and the Twentieth Century", was published, which was heavily based on the relevant research of Otto Neurath . The author himself worked at Neurath's Social and Economic Museum from 1928 to 1934 . The book first appeared in the central organ of the SDAP , the Arbeiter-Zeitung, and then became an international book success.

In 1933 Brunngraber was elected chairman of the newly founded Austrian Association of Socialist Writers . During the time of Austrofascism , Brunngraber could not publish in Austria. However, it continued to be very successful in Germany and was temporarily taken over by Nazi cultural policy. His non-fiction-like novel Sugar from Cuba , first published in 1941 , became one of the great bestsellers of the Third Reich. After 1945 Brunngraber returned to the social democratic camp. Since 1950 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

It rests in the Vienna Central Cemetery (15E-16-28) in an honorary grave .

Works

  • The uprooted , 1928
  • Karl and the 20th century . Roman, Societät, Frankfurt 1933.
  • Radium. Novel of an element . Roman, Rowohlt, 1936
  • The angels in Atlantis . Novel. Rowohlt, Berlin 1938
  • Opium war . Novel. Rowohlt, 1939
  • How did it happen . Psychology of the Third Reich, Vienna 1946
  • Insane . Narrative. Georg Fromme, 1947
  • Trial for life and death . Novel. Paul Zsolnay , Vienna 1948
  • Film script The trial . 1948
  • Overcoming nihilism. Considerations from an activist . Essay. Wiener Volksbuch, Vienna 1949
  • The way through the labyrinth . Novel. Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1949
  • April 1, 2000 . (with Ernst Marboe ) Screenplay, 1950
  • The resounding world. Novel of radio technology . Novel. 1951
  • Heroin. Novel of drugs . Novel. Rowohlt, 1952
  • Sugar from Cuba. Novel of a gold rush . Novel. Rowohlt, 1954. Again Edition Down the Danube , 1993
  • Purgatory . Novel. Rowohlt, 1955
  • The snake in paradise . Novel. Kurt Desch, Munich 1958

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notes

  1. ^ New editions Kronberg, 1978 a. Nördlingen, 1988, series Die Other Bibliothek , again Steidl, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-88243-669-7
  2. ↑ In the radio play version by Günter Eich broadcast on September 22, 1937, with Heinrich George as speaker, on Reichssender Berlin . A contemporary opinion, Gerd Eckert: Eich presented the effect of radium on attitudes ... in sometimes bizarre scenes ... So it was more of a fantasy about radium. in: Glenn R. Cuomo: Career at the cost of compromise. Gunter Eich's life and work in the years 1933 - 1945. Series: Amsterdam Publications on Language and Literature, 82. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1989, ISBN 90-5183-080-7 , p. 163. Here also archive records on Brunngraber and the National Socialists this time, note 40. Eich's other radio play version after 1945 at NWDR . - English version: Radium. A novel. Translated by Eden Paul & Cedar Paul . Random House, London 1937. This version is searchable on Google Books
  3. ↑ new edition Vienna 1947, Frankfurt 1954. Fantastic novel
  4. ↑ directed by GW Pabst ; with Ernst Deutsch as “best leading actor”, a prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1948; with Josef Meinrad in an early role
personal data
SURNAME Brunngraber, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, journalist, painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1960
Place of death Vienna