The Miracle of Survival
by Ernst Lothar
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“The day the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell broke my heart ... something irreplaceable died.” Ernst Lothar was a child of the Habsburg Empire and remained so until his death. In the First Austrian Republic he made a name for himself as a theatre critic and until his emigration he co-directed the Theater in der Josefstadt with Max Reinhardt. In 1938 he emigrated to the USA, returning to Vienna after the end of the war as a Denazification officer; and despite hostilities later took on leading positions at the Burgtheater and the Salzburg Festival, which he co-founded. “It is difficult not to lose your heart to the ingenuity and child-like exuberance of these people,” writes Daniel Kehlmann in his epilogue to Das Wunder des Überlebens.
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Ernst Lothar, full name Ernst Lothar Müller, was born in Brno in 1890 and died in Vienna in 1974. A trained lawyer, he initially worked as a public prosecutor before he became a theatre critic, director and finally director of the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1925. In 1938 he emigrated to the USA, returning to Vienna after the end of the war. From 1948 he was director at the Burgtheater and member of the board of directors at the Salzburg Festival. Zsolnay most recently published the new editions of Lothar’s novels Der Engel mit der Posaune (2016) and Die Rückkehr (2018).
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- Publisher Zsolnay
- Publication Date March 2020
- ISBN/Identifier PZ00000013
- Pages464
- Publish StatusPublished
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