Bermann, Richard Arnold

The Vienna-born feature writer and author Richard Arnold Bermann (better known under his pseudonym Arnold Höllriegel, 1883-1939) worked as a journalist for the Berliner Tageblatt, the Prager Tagblatt and Die Zeit (Vienna) until 1933. As a pacifist, he was on the front line alongside the soldiers in the First World War. In the 1920s and 1930s he travelled to Palestine, the United States, Brazil, North Africa and the South Seas, among other places. In 1934, he had to emigrate to New York because of his Jewish origins, became friends with Charlie Chaplin and, together with Prince Hubertus von Löwenstein, founded one of the most important organisations of the German-speaking exile, the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom. He died of heart failure in American exile in 1939.