works Never Call Retreat

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Titel Never Call Retreat
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ID 2883
Type publication >> novel
Date 1942-12-30 - 1942-12-30
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  • Transatlantic Networks
  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/2883/
    Notes Freeman's depiction of Vienna and its inhabitants is based on hearsay and second hand knowledge from people who had actually lived in Vienna. He seems to have primarily relied on the extensive reports of fellow journalists, such as Dorothy Thompson, G. E. R. Gedye and especially John Gunther, as well as have benefitted from his close friendship with the Viennese emigrants Friedrich and Steffi Kiesler whom he had encountered in the USA. His Viennese characters represent common stereotypes of almost every social and political segment of society, including the "typical" musical family and ranging from members of the aristocracy to labour unionists, the Jewish ethnic community to monarchists and conservative Catholics. For the second part of the novel, set in a concentration camp, Freeman seems to have relied on Paul Massing's Fatherland.

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    Event

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    related >> contains a projection of July Revolt at Justizpalast
    related >> contains a projection of Austrian Civil War

    Person

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    1942-12-30 written by Freeman, Joseph
    features/featured Gross, Siegfried
    drew on Kiesler, Stefanie
    drew on Kiesler, Frederick John
    as main character Schuman, Paul August
    features/featured Hauser, Peter
    features/featured Hauser, Anna

    Place

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    related >> set in >> projects Vienna
    related >> set in New York, NY
    related >> set in >> projects Paris
    related >> set in Concentration camp (stereotype)

    Work

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    related >> drew on Fatherland

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