Died 1939-05-27.
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Joseph Roth
Moses Joseph Roth was an Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft", a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.…
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culture · Austro-Hungarian novelist and journalist (1894–1939) · writer · journalist · playwright · also Joseph Roth, Moses Joseph Roth, Roth
Born 2 September 1894 · Died 27 May 1939 · Q78509
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1939· 1 entry
1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1929· 1 entry
Met Andrea Manga Bell, born in Hamburg and unhappily married to Alexandre Douala Manga Bell, Prince of Douala in Cameroon
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1923· 2 entries
Roth's first (unfinished) novel, The Spider's Web, was serialized in an Austrian newspaper
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Began his association with the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung, traveling widely throughout Europe, and reporting from the South of France, the USSR, Albania, Poland, Italy, and Germany
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1920· 1 entry
Moved to Berlin, where he worked as a successful journalist for the Neue Berliner Zeitung and, from 1921, for the Berliner Börsen-Courier
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1918· 2 entries
Of the Habsburg Empire, which marked the beginning of a pronounced sense of "homelessness" that was to feature regularly in his work
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Roth returned to Vienna and began writing for left-wing newspapers, signing articles published by Vorwärts as Der rote Joseph (The red Joseph, a play on his surname, which is homophonous with German rot, "red", which is
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1916· 1 entry
Roth broke off his university studies and volunteered to serve in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Eastern Front, "though possibly only as an army journalist or censor"
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1913· 1 entry
Before transferring to the University of Vienna in 1914 to study philosophy and German literature
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-09-02.
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