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  Egon Erwin Kisch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egon Erwin Kisch (Prague, April 29, 1885 - March 31, 1948) was a Czechoslovakian writer and journalist, who wrote in German.
Kisch was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began his journalistic career as a reporter for a local German language newspaper in 1906.
Kisch was one of the very few Europeans to be given the test and as he was a noted linguist, the test was given in Scottish Gaelic and he consequently failed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egon_Erwin_Kisch   (1195 words)

  
 reVIEW : Schmundt
Kisch was a revolutionary in the marketplace of ideas, a self-promoter for a higher cause; his masterful use of journalistic and literary conventions allowed him to subvert them.
Kisch's modernist aesthetic was intended as an antidote to the fascist aesthetization of politics.
By inscribing his politics into his texts, Kisch sacrificed a lot of his literary quality, which might be one of the reasons why he could not start a tradition of literary journalism: the politics was too deeply embedded in his writing to lend it a lasting value (outside of communist countries).
www.altx.com /ebr/reviews/rev7/r7sch.htm   (2757 words)

  
 Jews Against the Occupation - Sydney
Kisch had had a bad time, writing in Berlin against Hitler, who, the moment he came to power, had him busted, beaten, concentrated.
But because Kisch was a Czech, and Hitler didn't grab that country for another 5 years, he, Kisch, had got loose, alive, and was now telling people from Paris what a baddie this Hitler really was.
Kisch was elected, well, appointed, apparently by the Paris Honcho Romain Rolland, and there he was, on the SS Strathcaird, sailing from Marseilles, well, steaming, to Melbourne.
www.jao.org.au /kisch.htm   (871 words)

  
 Kisch
In 1920 Egon Erwin Kisch, a Czech citizen since the dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy, was expelled as an undesirable alien by Austrian authorities.
In general, however, Kisch was critical of what he saw, and he drew the reader’s attention to the misery and waste produced by American capitalism, late 1920s’ style.
The chapter on Kisch’s visit to Henry Ford’s domain demonstrated that most of the innovations, proclaimed to be benefitting the man on the job, were designed to minimize idle motion of the conveyor belts and reduce the cost of production, rather than to improve the workers’ lot.
homepage.univie.ac.at /kurt.mayer/Kisch.htm   (2422 words)

  
 The Guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Zogbaum's Kisch is at the same time a supporter of tolerance and broad alliances (who was relieved at the adoption of the Popular Front strategy) and a narrow sectarian who attacked the ALP in the manner of the earlier "social fascist" period of Comintern policy in Australian Landfall.
"Kisch as well as [fellow communist] Toller were frequently active on behalf of fellow writers in political trouble" appears to be a grudging concession buried among the fine print of the notes.
"Kisch should have been intensely grateful to Australia [despite feint praise for the Kisch Defence Committee, she means the government authorities] that he did not disappear into a dungeon or end up doing hard labour, cutting stone in a quarry, as the attorney general had intended.
www.cpa.org.au /garchve05/1215kisch1.html   (1753 words)

  
 Dymocks Booksellers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
However Kisch was not a man to be held easily and after a prolonged ship-bound imprisonment, he escaped and jumped from the deck of the Strathaird and into Australian history.
Kisch’s dramatic leap would have been forgotten if he had not successfully challenged the legality of the Australian government‘s attempt to prevent him entering the country.
This important new book assesses, for the first time, the international significance of Egon Kisch and places him, and his Australian experience in the broader context of the rise of fascism in Europe and the ideological struggles of the 1930s.
www.dymocks.com.au /ContentDynamic/Full_Details.asp?ISBN=1920769358   (314 words)

  
 Radio National Breakfast
After being informed by British authorities that the Czech writer, journalist and activist Egon Erwin Kisch, was a 'dangerous communist', the Australian government banned his entry.
It was November 1934, and Kisch was being held captive by the captain of the SS Straithorne, in Melbourne.
Kisch always thought the ban was the result of Nazi pressure on an Australian government eager to trade with a resurgent Germany, but Heidi Zogbaum, a Research Fellow at LaTrobe University, believes there was an even more intriguing conspiracy.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/brkfast/stories/s1246006.htm   (148 words)

  
 SBB, Historische Drucke: Galaxie des Wissens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Egon Erwin Kisch, also known as the »Racing Reporter«, experienced the First World War as a soldier in the Royal and Imperial Army and participated in the Serbian campaign.
Kisch kept a detailed diary of events from his joyful departure into the adventure of war to his serious wound on the Carpathian front in March 1915.
Kisch, Egon Erwin: »Schreib das auf, Kisch!« : Das Kriegstagebuch / von Egon Erwin Kisch.
galaxie-des-wissens.de /english/tour_15   (128 words)

  
 Alibris: Erwin
Erwin also provides a detailed summary of the climatic, geologic, geophysical and geochemical events of the Late Permian and Early Triassic.
Erwin Lutzer presents a rationale for sexual purity, giving special attention to the consequences of permissiveness, and also dealing with such issues adultery, lust, homosexuality and masturbation.
Challenging the claim that no religion can be superior to another and the popular move to unite all religions, Lutzer explains that religion is not a wheel whose varied religions are spokes that ultimately lead to the same peace and harmony at the core.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Erwin/page/5&matches=142   (895 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Czech journalist, communist and peace campaigner Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) came to Australia in November 1934, he challenged a conservative Lyons government, caused a media sensation and won the hearts of many Australians.
A renowned political activist, Egon Erwin Kisch is remembered in a State Library of NSW exhibition - Kisch in Australia - opening at the Migration Museum on 24
Kisch had been invited by the Melbourne branch of the Movement Against War and Fascism to attend a peace congress in Melbourne in November 1934, but when the ship he was traveling on docked in Fremantle, Kisch was prevented from landing.
www.sacentral.sa.gov.au /site/page.cfm?c=51183   (473 words)

  
 Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A renowned political activist, Egon Erwin Kisch is remembered in a State Library of NSW exhibition - Kisch in Australia - now on at the Migration Museum.
When Czech journalist, travel writer and anti-fascist Egon Erwin Kisch arrived in Australia in 1934, he could not have been more surprised at his reception by the authorities.
From this point on, the many court and public appearances of Egon Kisch in Australia were played out in the press of the day.
www.lollipopsmagazine.com /Whatson/Museums/Adelaide/Migration_Museum.html   (1323 words)

  
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Heidi Zogbaum barely manages to suppress her laughter as she describes the farcical situation of trying to use the immigration act to stop anti-war speaker, communist and Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch from landing in Australia.
On the basis of dodgy UK intelligence (a British agent named 'snuffbox' had written a report stating that Kisch was not welcome in England, but the reasons were never substantiated, despite Australian requests for more info), Menzies determined that Kisch could and would not be admitted to Australia.
Kisch should have been intensely grateful to Australia that he did not disappear into a dungeon or end up doing hard labour, cutting stone in a quarry, as the attorney-general had intended.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7153239&postID=110681729069677461   (670 words)

  
 Egon Erwin Kisch <197> early boat-person and anti-fascist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kisch refused to play, shouted from the police station: “This will make Australia the laughing stock of the world!” Now declared an illegal immigrant, he was given a six-month jail sentence.
But Kisch was soon released on bail (“he won’t run far with a broken leg” — a judge said), and the language test was thrown out of court, and Scottish Gaelic was rejected from that time forward as a European language.
[A Kisch exhibition is being held at the Jewish Museam of Australia, in St Kilda in Melbourne from November 10 to January 30.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/606/606p22.htm   (1120 words)

  
 Notes for an Autobiography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kisch belonged to that group of writers from Prague, Czechoslovakia, who at the beginning of this century elected to write in German and quickly gained prominence in modern German literature.
In the 1920's, Kisch, who prided himself on being a direct descendant of the Maharal of Prague, shocked the city with a reportage attempting to disprove the legend that the clay figure of the Golem was stored in the attic of the Maharal's synagogue.
Egon Erwin Kisch and I became friends in Paris, where he had fled from Berlin after the Nazis put him and other left-wing writers under arrest for several weeks following the fire in the Reichstag.
www.lib.umd.edu:7777 /SLSES/donors/autobio.html   (7472 words)

  
 The Europeans - 9/16/2001: Egon Erwin Kisch
The Czech-born, German-Jewish journalist came to visit Australia in 1934 to speak at a congress against war and facism but was denied entry by the Australian Government.
Upon learning this Kisch, or Egonek as he was called by his friends and admirers, leapt from the boat breaking his leg.
Biographer of Egon Erwin Kisch and curator of an exhibition on Kisch that he created for the Jewish Museum in Vienna and that has been touring Europe since 1998.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/europe/stories/s367900.htm   (133 words)

  
 Egon Erwin Kisch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The right-wing Australian government repeatedly refused Kisch entry so he took matters into his own hands.
Nonetheless, when Stern magazine founded a prestigious award for German journalism in 1977, it was named the Ego Erwin Kisch Prize in his honour.
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A new temporary exhibition was recently opened at the Museum: “Kisch in Australia.
Egon Erwin Kisch was a Czech-born, German-Jewish progressive journalist (and communist).
A series of legal confrontations ensued, but Kisch eventually won and was eventually free to travel the countryside presenting talks at public rallies.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7968188&postID=110042120503248302   (514 words)

  
 Kisch joins the historical hit-list
Later that year, he was turned away when he arrived to attend the “counter-trial” in London of the defendants accused of setting fire to the Reichstag in Berlin &mdash; an event most people believe was staged by the Nazis themselves and used to secure their absolute dictatorship over Germany.
Elsewhere, in connection with Kisch’s own 1937 account of his Australian experiences, Zogbaum claims “Australian Landfall, although amusing and informative, was still a piece of communist propaganda, and not a very good one at that ?
Kisch’s stance was pure Marxist self-righteousness and Comintern ‘spin’ at a time when communism had lost all intellectual and moral credibility”.
www.agitprop.org.au /nowar/20050216_bb_historical_hit_list.php   (1908 words)

  
 Jewish writers who lived in Prague
Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Franz Werfel, Max Brod and Gustav Meyrink
E. Kisch was born in Prague in 1885.
He was a Prague Jewish writer who was known all over the world as an "ardent reporter".
www.gym-dk.cz /comenius/prague/a06writers.html   (385 words)

  
 Memoirs - Pablo Neruda
Recounting his time in Mexico during the Second World War he mentions a few exiles from the Nazi regime, including Anna Seghers and the German-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch.
Kisch, he writes, "showed incessant curiosity" about why Neruda had adopted such a prototypical Czech name, but the poet never revealed it to him -- because the answer was "so simple and so lacking in glamour":
His tone is amiable, and his love of life, nature, poetry, and especially his homeland shine through throughout.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/nerudap/memorias.htm   (1322 words)

  
 Kisch, Egon Erwin, 1885-1948
Kisch's message from the World Committee to the Australian workers / issued by the National Council Against War and Fascism.
The illustration on the cover of this pamphlet shows Kisch waving from on board ship.
His talk, which he was finally able to deliver, not to the Congress in Melbourne, but to a large rally in Sydney Domain on 18 November, tells of the persecution writers had to suffer in Nazi Germany.
www.lib.monash.edu.au /exhibitions/communism/com065.html   (113 words)

  
 Workers Online : History : 1999 - Issue 39 : Who Remembers Egon Erwin Kisch?
Egon Erwin Kisch was a well known progressive journalist living in Germany when he was invited by the Australian branch of the world committee against war and fascism to speak at a conference in Melbourne in 1934.
Kisch visited the mines in Newcastle and the prison in Parramatta, Redfern and Botany Bay, Ballarat and Brisbane, and Newnes in N.S.W. before he finally was forced to leave Australia for Europe on March 11, 1935.
Later, Kisch wrote a book ("Australian Landfall") on his experiences with the "White Australian Policy" and the government's anti-communist propaganda against any progressive movement at the time.
workers.labor.net.au /39/c_historicalfeature_egon.html   (715 words)

  
 Cazoo.org: German-American Cultural Center
The first of these, Blaise Cendrars "L'or; la merveilleuse histoire du general Johann August Sutter," appeared in 1925 and was a distorted biography that became the source for numerous subsequent literary treatments in German of Sutter's life.
Among these are Stefan Zweig's "The Discovery of Eldorado", "Ballade of Fort Sutter", by Egon Erwin Kisch, and "The History of General Johann August Sutter", by Caesar von Arx.
Bancroft's corrected notes were used as the source for "New Helvetia -- Memoirs of General Johann August Sutter", published by Erwin Gustav Gudde in Leipzig in 1934.
www.cazoo.org /Germans/JohannSutter.html   (726 words)

  
 East Detroit: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ambivalence and Cigarettes: Egon Erwin Kisch's "At Ford's Place in Detroit," with a Translation of the Text
Automobile industry--History, Detroit, Michigan--History, Ford, Henry--History, Historians--Research, Kisch, Egon Erwin--Research, Kisch, Egon Erwin--Works, United States history--Research
...Europeans flocked to Detroit in the interwar...neighbors to the east and west made the...home through the east translators note side of Detroit--of this city, which...note: Kisch wrote east, though Dearborn is west of Detroit.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/east-detroit.jsp?l=E&p=1   (1621 words)

  
 Web Directory » World » Deutsch » Kultur » Literatur » Autoren und Autorinnen » K » ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Egon Erwin Kisch - Kurzbiographie vom Deutschen Historischen Museum.
Egon Erwin Kisch - Ausführliche Pressemeldung über die Ausstellung zu Leben und Werk des Autors im Jüdischen Museum Wien.
Marcus G. Patka: Der rasende Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch - Eine Rezension von Christine Schmidjell.
www.epagini.com /directory/World/Deutsch/Kultur/Literatur/Autoren_und_Autorinnen/K/Kisch,_Egon_Erwin   (526 words)

  
 Presse | Nachrichten | Pressemitteilung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
458 articles by journalists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were entered for this year´s Egon Erwin Kisch Prize – more than ever before in the 26–year history of Germany´s most important journalist award.
The magazine´s founder, Henry Nannen, started the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in 1977.
STERN, a G+J magazine, awards the prize, which is named after Egon Erwin Kisch, a great journalist and reporter during the Weimar Republic, with a view to livening up journalistic coverage in the German-speaking countries.
www.business-channel.de /en/presse/meldaktuell/meldaktuell_030305_ENG_druck.php4   (213 words)

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