Ernst Lothar (; 25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a

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, theatre director/manager and producer. He was born Ernst Lothar Müller, and as

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is a very common

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, he dropped it. His brother,

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, by contrast, added a surname.

Biography

Lothar was born in Brünn,

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(now

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in the

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) and died in

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. 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

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, Summer, 1942. He was married to the Austrian actress

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. They both fled into exile following the 1938

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Honours and awards

* Bauersfeld Prize (1918) * Gold Medal of Vienna (1960) * Kainz Medal (1960) *

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, 1st class (1961) * Literature Prize of the City of Vienna (1963) * Golden Needle of P.E.N. Club (1963) *

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(1964) * Honorary member of the Burgtheater and the P.E.N. clubs

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

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Filmography

*'' Little Friend'', directed by Berthold Viertel (UK, 1934, based on the novel ''Kleine Freundin'') *'' The Clairvoyant'', directed by

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(UK, 1935, based on the novel ''Der Hellseher'') *'' The Angel with the Trumpet'', directed by Karl Hartl (Austria, 1948, based on the novel ''Der Engel mit der Posaune'') *'' An Act of Murder'', directed by Michael Gordon (1948, based on the novel ''Die Mühle der Gerechtigkeit'') *'' The Angel with the Trumpet'', directed by

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(UK, 1950, based on the novel ''Der Engel mit der Posaune'') Screenwriter *', directed by (Austria, 1963, TV film, based on the eponymous novella by

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Biography

Honours and awards

Books in translation (selected)

Filmography

See also

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