Stories from Middle Europe in the 1920s & 30s ........ Joseph Roth ....... on the wireless

Joseph Roth was a a journalist and author and to my shame someone who I knew nothing about.

Joseph Roth, 1926

All of which meant that today's edition of In Our Time is a fascinating introduction to the man.

“Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the great writers on Central Europe after the first world war and on the dying of the old orders with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

As a German speaking Jew from Brody in the north-eastern edge of that Empire, which was then in Galicia, next in Poland and is now in Ukraine, Roth (1894 - 1939) was to spend his short life moving first to Lviv then to Vienna and finally to Paris via Berlin without ever finding a settled home.

Roth explored the loss of homeland and anticipated the dangers of the new nationalism through his journalism and in his novels including Radetzky March, Job, Rebellion and Flight Without End, and his books were among the first the Nazis burned.

With Helen Chambers, Emeritus Professor of German at the University of St Andrews, Deborah Holmes Associate Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Salzburg, and Jon Hughes Reader in German and Cultural Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London

Producer: Simon Tillotson”

Location; BBC Radio 4

Picture; Joseph Roth, 1926, source, http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2006/09/, posted in Joseph Roth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Roth

*Joseph Roth, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vyjt