Ernst Lothar
Illustration — Photography around 1930 Ernst Lothar (lang; 25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer. He was born Ernst Lothar Müller, and as Müller is a very common German surname, he dropped it. His brother, Hans Müller-Einigen, by contrast, added a surname.
Ernst Lothar
Georg Fayer · Programmzeitschrift der RAVAG „Radio Wien“ 10 April 1931, S. 25 (https: anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=raw datum=19310410 seite=25 zoom=33) · Public domain
- Born
- 1890 · Brno.
- Died
- 1974 · Vienna.
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- writer · poet lawyer · director · theatre critic · jurist · playwright
- Education
- University of Vienna
- Honours
- Bauernfeld prize · Kainz Medal · City of Vienna Literature Prize
- Languages
- German
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Biography
Biography
Lothar was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno in the Czech Republic) and died in Vienna. Amongst his novels was The Angel with the Trumpet and The Prisoner. In 1943 he published Beneath Another Sun (Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, N.Y.). It was evidently written in exile as the foreword is signed Colorado Springs, Summer, 1942. He was married to the Austrian actress Adrienne Gessner. They both fled into exile following the 1938 Anschluss.
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Ernst Lothar, born on 25 October 1890 in Brno, Czech Republic and died on 30 October 1974 in Vienna, Austria, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Filmography
Filmography
• Little Friend, directed by Berthold Viertel (UK, 1934, based on the novel Kleine Freundin) • The Clairvoyant, directed by Maurice Elvey (UK, 1935, based on the novel Der Hellseher) • The Angel with the Trumpet, directed by Karl Hartl (Austria, 1948, based on the novel Der Engel mit der Posaune) • An Act of Murder, directed by Michael Gordon (1948, based on the novel Die Mühle der Gerechtigkeit) • The Angel with the Trumpet, directed by Anthony Bushell (UK, 1950, based on the novel Der Engel mit der Posaune) Screenwriter • Leutnant Gustl (film), directed by John Olden (Austria, 1963, TV film, based on the eponymous novella by Arthur Schnitzler)
Grab von Ernst Lothar und Adrienne Gessner auf dem Wiener Zentralfriedhof
Dr. Bernd Gross · Own work Original text: Eigenes Foto
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The Loom of Justice (1935), translated by Willa and Edwin Muir A Woman is Witness: A Paris Diary (1941), translated by June Barrows Mussey Beneath Another Sun (1943), translated by June Barrows Mussey The Angel with the Trumpet (1944), made into films of the same name in 1948 and 1950; republished in 2015 as "The Vienna Melody", translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood The Prisoner: A Novel (1945), translated by James Austin Galston The Door Opens (1945), translated by Marion A. Werner; illustrated by Garth Williams
Honours and awards
• Bauersfeld Prize (1918) • Gold Medal of Vienna (1960) • Kainz Medal (1960) • Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1961) • Literature Prize of the City of Vienna (1963) • Golden Needle of P.E.N. Club (1963) • Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1964) • Honorary member of the Burgtheater and the P.E.N. clubs
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- 1.Ernst Lothar: Das Wunder des Überlebens. Erinnerungen und Ergebnisse. Zsolnay, Wien 1960, S. 44 f.
- 2.Pfarre St. Rochus, 01-86, fol. 18.
- 3.Fremde Heimat – Ernst Lothar „Die Rückkehr“ Von Constanze Matthes, in Zeichen & Zeiten, 23. August 2018. Abgerufen am 29. Oktober 2018.
- 4.Dr. Ernst Lothar Nachfolger von.
- 5.An den Folgen eines Schenkelhalsbruches: Ernst Lothar ist gestorben. 1974-10-31. 20. unten rechts.
- 6.Dagmar Heissler: Ernst Lothar – Schriftsteller, Kritiker, Theaterschaffender. Böhlau, Wien 2016, S. 467–472.
- 7.Wien zeichnet seine besten Bühnenkünstler aus - Wessely, Edthofer und Lothar erhielten die Kainz-Medaille. 1960-10-27.
- 8.Hedwig Abraham: Adrienne Gessner. In: viennatouristguide.at, abgerufen am 30. Dezember 2013.
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