Brunngraber, Rudolf
Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1901-1960) German industrial designer and author, active for many years. In his sf novel Radium: Roman eines Elements (1936; trans Eden and Cedar Paul 1937), a near-contemporary corner on the radium market (see Elements) causes Near Future troubles in a hospital using it as a Medicine to cure cancer. He also wrote the script for the film 1 April 2000 (1952), which speculates melodramatically on the day – that is, 1 April 2000 – when Austria may be given full independence. [JC]
Rudolf Brunngraber
born Vienna, Austria: 20 September 1901
died Vienna, Austria: 5 April 1960
works
- Karl und das 20. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Societäts-Verlag, 1933) [hb/]
- Karl and the Twentieth Century (New York: William Morrow, 1933) [trans of the above by Eden and Cedar Paul: hb/]
- Radium: Roman eines Elements (Berlin: Ernst Rowoht, 1936) [hb/]
- Radium (London: George G Harrap, 1937) [trans by Eden and Cedar Paul of the above: hb/Leonard Yoden]
- Die Engel in Atlantis ["The Angel in Atlantis"] (Berlin: Ernst Rowolt, 1938) [binding unknown/]
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