Author: Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin/Ervín Kisch (29 April 1885, Prague – 31 March 1948, Prague), a Prague Jew, was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak, left-wing writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He styled himself Der Rasende Reporter (The raging reporter) for his countless travels to the far corners of the globe, Kisch was noted for his development of literary reportage and his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
*Bela Illesz writes: “Egon Erwin Kisch was born in Prague. For the rest of his life, wherever he was, wherever he worked, he remained a Prague citizen. It seems to me that even when asked about his nationality, he always answered in one word: a Prague citizen. Few people in the world knew Prague and its history as well as he did, few people knew all its sights as well as he did, literally every house, every stone, every tree, even every bush. But, remaining a Prague resident in spirit, in character, he felt at home, equally at home in Vienna and Berlin, Paris and Moscow, and in many other capitals of the world.”
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