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.