Arthur Holitscher

Hungarian playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer and anarchist. Helped found the Bund für Proletarische Kultur (League for Proletarian Culture) in 1919. Amongst his works are his first novel, 'Weiße Liebe' (White Love; 1896); 'O. Wilde: Ballade des Zuchthauses zu Reading' (1918), his translation of 'The Ballad of Redaing Gaol'; travel books, including those from his visit to revolutionary Russia, 'Drei Monate in Sowjet-Russland' (Three Months in Soviet Russia; 1921) and 'Stromab die Hungerwolga' (Downstream of the Volga famine; 1922); plus his books on anarchism and related subjects, including 'Frans Masereel', with Stefan Zweig (1923) and 'Ravachol und die Pariser Anarchisten' (Ravachol and the Paris anarchists; 1925). His books were on the Nazi's 1933 Black List of burnt books, and shortly after he fled to Paris, moving to Geneva in 1939, where he lived in obscurity and died in poverty.