Holitscher, Arthur

Arthur Holitscher (1869, Hungary - 1941, Switzerland) became a freelance writer in Paris in 1895 after a short career as a bank clerk in Budapest and Vienna. His first novel, White Love, was published in 1895 and took him to Munich, where he worked as editor of the magazine Simplicissimus . With the outbreak of the First World War, he was deported from London to Berlin, where he wrote for the Berliner Tageblatt . In the 1920s, Holitscher became a committed pacifist before he was forced into exile in 1933. His works, including Three Months in Soviet Russia, were placed on the list of ‘literature to be eradicated’ during the National Socialist era. He fled first to Paris and finally to Geneva, where he died in 1941, impoverished, blind and lonely.