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The poet and author Richard Friedenthal was born in Munich in 1896 and grew up in Berlin. After earning his phil. doctorate in 1922, he went into publishing before starting his own writing career primarily with novels and biographies, such as about Martin Luther, Goethe, and Karl Marx. Friedenthal emigrated to Great Britain in 1938, and after spending time at an internment camp, he worked at the British Broadcasting Corporation and served as secretary of the PEN Center of German speaking authors abroad. After getting his British citizenship in 1951, he returned to West-Germany, where he was vice president of the West-German PEN Center and received multiple honors for his literary work as well as for German-British cooperation. Richard Friedenthal died in Kiel, Germany, in 1979.

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Richard Friedenthal, circa 1970?, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2185.