# Arthur Holitscher > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arthur_Holitscher > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arthur_Holitscher.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Holitscher > Source revision: 1226193745 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Hungarian playwright, novelist, essayist and writer}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Arthur Holitscher|date=August 2010}} thumb|right|Arthur Holitscher, before 1926 '''Arthur Holitscher''' (22 August 1869 – 14 October 1941) was a Hungarian [playwright](/source/playwright), [novelist](/source/novelist), [essay](/source/essay)ist and writer on traveling. Born into an upper middle-class Jewish merchant family in [Pest, Hungary](/source/Pest%2C_Hungary), he began his career working for a bank for six years. His career as a writer began in Germany in the mid-1890s. ==Political involvement with Soviet Russia== In September 1917, Holitscher attended the [Third Zimmerwald Conference](/source/Third_Zimmerwald_Conference) held in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm) in the capacity of a correspondent for the Viennese paper ''[Neuen Freien Presse](/source/Die_Presse)''.{{cite web |last1=Biographie |first1=Deutsche |title=Holitscher, Arthur |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz33450.html |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |publisher=Deutsche Biographie |language=de}} He was also involved with the pacifist organisation [Bund Neues Vaterland](/source/Bund_Neues_Vaterland) (New Fatherland Confederation) and was active as a socialist. In September 1919 Holitscher was invited to meet with [Karl Radek](/source/Karl_Radek) at [Moabit prison](/source/Moabit) to discuss joining a commission to visit Russia. The proposed commission consisted of experts in agriculture, industry, a former Secretary of State as a specialist in administration, a representative of the Radical Workers of Berlin, and the Chief of Police of a large Swiss city. The German authorities were prepared to sanction this, however they decided to send Radek back to Russia in January 1920 and the proposed commission was shelved. Nevertheless, Holitscher was to take a trip to Russia separately departing for three months in September 1920.{{cite book |last1=Holitscher |first1=Arthur |title=Drei Monate in Sowjet-Rußland von Arthur Holitscher|date=1921 |publisher=S. Fischer |location=Berlin |url=https://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/drei-monate-in-sowjet-russland-5950/2 |language=de}} This led to the publication of ''Drei Monate in Sowjet-Russland'' (Three months in Soviet Russia) in 1921. ===First Russian Art Exhibition=== In 1922 he contributed to the foreword to the catalogue for the [First Russian Art Exhibition](/source/First_Russian_Art_Exhibition) held in [Berlin](/source/Berlin). ==Later life== He died in Geneva in 1941. ==Works== * ''Drei Monate in Sowjet-Russland'' (Three months in Soviet Russia), Berlin 1921. * ''Wiedersehen mit Amerika; die Verwandlung der U.S.A.'' (1930) Berlin: S. Fischer ===Articles in [Die Aktion](/source/Die_Aktion)=== (See [Die Aktion](/source/%3As%3Ade%3ADie_Aktion) index) * "Amerikas Literatur", No. 28, 11 July 1914 * "Scham und Läuterung", No. 27/28, 8 July 1916 * "Die Litanei von Atlanta." (translation of material by [W. E. B. Dubois](/source/W._E._B._Dubois)), No. 21/22, 19 May 1917 * "Nadja Strasser: Die Russin", No. 24/25, 16 June 1917 * "Gesang an die Lider", No. 23/24, 15 June 1918 * "[Aufruhr](/source/%3As%3Ade%3AAufruhr)", No. 8/9, 1 March 1919 ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{Librivox author |id=15680}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Holitscher, Arthur}} Category:1869 births Category:1941 deaths Category:Hungarian male dramatists and playwrights Category:Hungarian male novelists Category:20th-century Hungarian dramatists and playwrights Category:20th-century Hungarian novelists Category:20th-century Hungarian male writers Category:Theatre people from Budapest {{hungary-writer-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Arthur Holitscher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Holitscher) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Holitscher?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.