Robert Lucas (writer)
Robert Lucas | |
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Born | |
Died | 19 January 1984 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Austrian |
Other names | Robert Ehrenzweig |
Occupation | Writer, journalist |
Robert Lucas (born Robert Ehrenzweig, 8 May 1904 – 19 January 1984) was an Austrian Jewish writer.
Lucas studied chemistry and physics at the Vienna University of Technology and University of Vienna. He worked later as an author for the socialdemocratic publisher and was writing political cabarets. In 1931 he wrote the opening ceremony "Das Große Festspiel" for the 1931 Workers' Olympiad in Vienna.[1]
Lucas emigrated to London in 1934 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria was outlawed and many of its members imprisoned by the Austrofascist regime. He was a correspondent for the Austrian newspaper Neue Freie Presse and from 1938, worked for the . During the war he wrote German-language British propaganda with other emigrants, like Bruno Adler. In 1940 Lucas created a fictional character "Corporal Adolf Hirnschal" and wrote hundreds of satires that were produced by the BBC and broadcast to Germany.[2][3]
His 1972 biography of Frieda Lawrence was translated into English by Geoffrey Skelton.
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References[]
- ^ Erwin Leuchter (1902–1973) Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ Österreichische Mediathek: "Chronisten, Reporter, Aufklärer - Robert Lucas" (in German). Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ Moorehead, Kristina (August 30, 2019). "How Britain fought Hitler with humour". BBC - Culture. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
- 1904 births
- 1984 deaths
- Writers from Vienna
- Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss
- Austrian male writers
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
- British writers
- Austrian writer stubs