Ernst Lothar

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== Biography == Lothar was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno in the Czech Republic) and died in Vienna. 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. They both fled into exile following the 1938 Anschluss.

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Ernst Lothar (German: [ˈloːtar]; 25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer. He was born Ernst Lothar Müller, and as Müller is a very common German surname, he dropped it. His brother, Hans Müller-Einigen, by contrast, added a surname.

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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. clubs

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== Books in translation (selected) == The Loom of Justice (1935), translated by Willa and Edwin Muir A Woman is Witness: A Paris Diary (1941), translated by June Barrows Mussey Beneath Another Sun (1943), translated by June Barrows Mussey 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