!!!Frei, Bruno eigentlich Benedikt Freistadt, Pseudonym Karl Franz

Frei, Bruno (real name: Benedikt Freistadt, pseudonym: Karl Franz), b. Bratislava, Slovakia (then Pressburg), June 11, 1897, 
d. Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria), May 21, 1988, journalist and 
author. At first worked for a newspaper in Vienna, the "Abend", and 
edited "Berlin am Morgen" from 1929. While in exile was co-founder of 
the exile magazine "Freies Deutschland". Returned to Vienna in 1947 
and published the "Oesterreichisches Tagebuch" together with E.  
Fischer. In his numerous works he expressed his objection to fascism 
and his support of peace and social justice.

!Works
Reports: Das Elend Wiens, 1921; Die roten Matrosen von Cattaro, 
1927; Im Lande der roten Macht, 1929; Hanussen, 1934; Die Maenner von 
Vernet, 1950. - Essays: Israel zw. den Fronten, 1965; Die anarchist. 
Utopie, 1971; Zur Kritik der Sozialutopie, 1973. - Biographies: 
C. v. Ossietzky, 1966; J. Popper-Lynkeus, 1971. - Der 
Papiersaebel, 1972 (autobiography).

!Literature
E. Holpfer, Die Smlg. B. F. (1897-1988), exhibition 
catalogue, Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes, 
Vienna 1996.



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