persons Lothar, Ernst

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Name Lothar, Ernst
Alternative Names
  • alternative name >> given name: Müller, Ernst Lothar
  • ID 616
    Gender male
    Lifespan 1890-10-25 - 1974-10-30
    Professions writer (Q36180), civil servant (Q212238), theater director (Q3387717), novelist (Q6625963), director, theater critic, theater manager, jurist, dramatist
    Collection(s)
  • Return From Exile
  • Österreicher in Hollywood
  • Cultural Politics, Transfer & Propaganda
  • webclient
  • Uri(s) https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/2_80
    https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/616/
    https://d-nb.info/gnd/118574523
    Notes Lothar, having been in exile in the U.S. since 1939, came back to Vienna as a cultural officer in 1946. He worked for the Information Service Branch and was responsible for the denazification of artists and the dissemination of American plays. The Austro-Fascist sentiments expressed in his novels have been criticised by fellow exile Berthold Viertel. In his novels he gives a very positive image of Austrian patriots in opposition to the Nazis. The fact that he did not participate in the Brecht-boycott illustrates that Lothar's anti-communism was more nuanced than Weigel's, Haeusserman's and Torberg's.
    References Straub, Importierte Ideologie? in Return from Exile, esp. 138-141. Kriegleder, Wynfrid. "The Case for Austrian Independence. Ernst Lothar’s Exile Novels." in Cultural Politics, Transfer, and Propaganda. Eds. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Siegfried Beer. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2021, 203-19. Heißler, Dagmar. Ernst Lothar. Sein Leben, sein Werk und dessen Rezeption anhand von veröffentlichten und unveröffentlichten Texten. Wien: Univ. Diss., 2013. Lackner, Herbert. Rückkehr in die fremde Heimat Die vertriebenen Dichter und Denker und die ernüchternde Nachkriegs-Wirklichkeit. Berlin: Ueberreuter Verlag, 2021.

    Relations

    Event

    Start End Other relation type Related Event
    1952 1959 related >> contributed artistically to >> directed Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1919 1925 worked as a civil servant for Austrian Federal Ministry for Commerce and Transport
    received benefits from European Film Fund
    1946-06 1947 worked as culture officer for US Information Service Branch (ISB)
    1930 worked for/at Radio-Verkehrs-AG (RAVAG)
    taught at Max Reinhardt Seminar
    1955 related Austrian citizenship
    1944 related American citizenship
    1908 1914 studied at University of Vienna
    1919 received a doctorate in law from University of Vienna
    1914-03-23 received a doctorate in law from University of Vienna

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    1933-05-22 1974 related >> in a relationship with >> married to Gessner, Adrienne
    related >> parent-in-law of Haeusserman, Ernst
    related >> friendship with Schuschnigg, Kurt von
    related >> acquainted with >> had a tense relationship with Weigel, Hans
    related >> related to >> parent of Lothar, Johanna "Hansi"
    related >> related to >> sibling of Müller, Hans
    1938 related >> was/were helped by >> was financially supported by Müller, Hans
    1935 related >> collaborated with Reinhardt, Max
    1914-11-10 1933-04-21 related >> in a relationship with >> married to Sachs des Renaudes, Mary Helene
    1946-06 related >> interrogated Wessely, Paula

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1890-10-25 Place of Birth Brno
    1974-10-30 related >> died in Vienna
    1946-06-11 related >> returned to Vienna
    1939 1941 related >> stayed in New York, NY
    1938 related >> fled to Switzerland
    1939 related >> fled to Paris
    1939 related >> emigrated to United States of America
    1952 1959 related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work Salzburg
    1904 1914 related >> moved to Vienna
    1941 1945 related >> lived in Colorado Springs, CO

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    1942 related >> wrote >> author of A Woman Is Witness: A Paris Diary (Tagebuch einer Wienerin)
    1942 related >> wrote >> author of Beneath Another Sun
    1944 related >> wrote >> author of Der Engel mit der Posaune (The Angel with the Trumpet)
    1945 1949 related >> wrote >> author of Die Rückkehr (Return to Vienna)
    1961 related >> wrote >> author of Das Wunder des Überlebens (The Miracle of Surviving)
    1961 related >> wrote >> author of Unter anderer Sonne
    1945 related >> publisher of Heldenplatz (The Prisoner)

    Label

    Label Start End Label type ISO Code
    Lothar, Ernst Legacy name (merge) deu
    Müller, Ernst Lothar alternative name >> given name deu

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