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Ernst Lothar (; 25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a
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1890 births 1974 deaths Writers from Brno People from the Margraviate of Moravia Austrian male dramatists and playwrights Austrian theatre managers and producers Austrian theatre directors Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United States 20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century male writers Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Film people from Brno {{theat-bio-stub
Ernst Lothar (; 25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a Moravia
Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
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n-Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
n writer
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, theatre director/manager and producer
Producer or producers may refer to:
Occupations
*Producer (agriculture), a farm operator
*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
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He was born Ernst Lothar Müller, and as Müller Müller may refer to:
* ''Die schöne Müllerin'' (1823) (sometimes referred to as ''Müllerlieder''; ''Müllerin'' is a female miller) is a song cycle with words by Wilhelm Müller and music by Franz Schubert
* Doctor Müller, fictional character ...
is a very common German surname, he dropped it. His brother, Hans Müller-Einigen Hans Müller(-Einigen) (born 25 October 1882 in Brünn, Austria-Hungary; died 8 March 1950 in Einigen) was a German language writer, author of screenplays and director. As his proper name, Hans Müller, was quite common, he added the name of the S ...
, by contrast, added a surname.
Biography
Lothar was born in Brünn,Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
(now Brno
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in the Czech Republic
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) and died in Vienna
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. 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
Adrienne Gessner (23 July 1896 – 23 June 1987) was an Austrian actress. Gessner appeared in over fifty film and television shows during her career, including the 1955 costume film '. Gessner appeared in a mixture of German and Austrian films dur ...
. They both fled into exile following the 1938 Anschluss
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The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
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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. clubsBooks in translation (selected)
The Loom of Justice (1935), translated by Willa and Edwin Muir A Woman is Witness: A Paris Diary (1941), translated byJune Barrows Mussey
June Barrows Mussey (March 30, 1910 – July 27, 1985), who wrote under the pen name Henry Hay, was an American journalist and translator who is notable for his writing about magic and sleight of hand and also of a large number of European author ...
Beneath Another Sun (1943), translated by June Barrows Mussey
June Barrows Mussey (March 30, 1910 – July 27, 1985), who wrote under the pen name Henry Hay, was an American journalist and translator who is notable for his writing about magic and sleight of hand and also of a large number of European author ...
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
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 byKarl Hartl
Karl Hartl (10 May 1899 – 29 August 1978) was an Austrian film director.
Life
Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexande ...
(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
*', directed by (Austria, 1963, TV film, based on the eponymous novella by Arthur Schnitzler)
See also
*Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born Theatre director, theatre and film director, theater manager, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he i ...
* List of banned authors during the Third Reich
* Theater in der Josefstadt
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Ernst Lothar DW
1890 births 1974 deaths Writers from Brno People from the Margraviate of Moravia Austrian male dramatists and playwrights Austrian theatre managers and producers Austrian theatre directors Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United States 20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century male writers Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Film people from Brno {{theat-bio-stub