!!!Kisch, Egon Erwin

Kisch, Egon Erwin, b. Prague (Czech Republic), April 29, 1885, 
d. Prague (Czech Republic), March 31, 1948, journalist and author 
of critical travel and social reports, a genre which he helped 
develop. At the beginning of his career he worked as local reporter 
for the "Bohemia" in Prague and after the disclosure of the espionage 
affair concerning Colonel A.  Redl in 1913 he turned to political 
journalism. After his participation in World War I K. became a star 
reporter for socialist newspapers in Berlin (1921-1933). Made 
extensive tours through Europe, Africa, the USA and China, which were 
the subject of his famous travel reports (e.g. "Der rasende Reporter", 
1924). In 1933 arrested by the National Socialists, released after the 
intervention of the Czechoslovak government, participated in the 
Spanish Civil War in 1937/38, went to Mexico and stayed there until 
the end of World War II. In 1946 returned to Prague.

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Edition: Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben, 10 vols., 1960-1986.

!Literature
E. Prolosch, E. E. K. Reporter einer rasenden 
Zeit, 1985; M. G. Patka, Zw. Literatur, Selbstdarstellung und 
Widerstand gegen die Staatsgewalt, E. E. K., doctoral 
thesis, Vienna 1993; the same, E. E. K. Stationen im Leben 
eines streitbaren Autors, 1997; the same (ed.), Der rasende Reporter 
E. E. K. Eine Biographie in Bildern, 1998.


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