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    Title

  • [Photos of Emil Ludwig], circa 1947

    • Other Title(s)

  • Andre Emmerich and the Ludwigs

  • Physical Description

    21 photographs : color

  • Summary

    21 snapshots of the writer Emil Ludwig and his wife Elga in their house in Ascona, Switzerland, circa 1947.

  • Depicted

    Ludwig, Emil, 1881-1948

  • Subject

    Authors; Portraits, Couples

  • Place

    Ascona (Switzerland)

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau (now Worclaw, Poland) in 1881. He studied law, but chose writing as a career. He began as a dramatist and mainly wrote plays and novellas, while also working as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland. During World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. In the 1920s, he became well-known for his biographies, which combined fact, fiction and psychological analysis. His subjects included Goethe (1920), Bismarck (1922-1924), Napoleon (1925), and Michelangelo (1930). He also achieved international fame, and his novels were translated into 25 languages. Joseph Goebbels, who mentioned him in his journal, considered his writings dangerous. Consequently, Ludwig's books were amoung those burned by the Nazis on May 10, 1933. In 1940, Emil Ludwig immigrated to the United States, where he continued to write. During his time in New York, he published The Mediterranean (1942), How to Treat the Germans (1943), and The Moral Conquest of Germany (1945). He returned to Switzerland after the war and died in Moscio, Italy, in 1948.

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[Photos of Emil Ludwig], circa 1947, Leo Baeck Institute, AR 12114.