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Rudolf Brunngraber (1901, Vienna – 1960) was an Austrian writer, journalist and painter who worked with Otto Neurath. His novels were translated into eighteen languages, with more than a million books sold.

Brunngraber's novel Radium was adapted for radio by Günter Eich in 1937.

Works

• Karl und das 20. Jahrhundert. Roman, Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Verlag, 1933. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as Karl and the twentieth century, 1933
• Radium; Roman eines Elements, Rowohlt, 1936. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as Radium; a novel, 1936.
• Die Engel in Atlantis, 1938.
• Opiumkrieg, roman, 1939.
• Zucker aus Cuba, roman eines goldrausches, 1941.
• Prozess auf Tod und Leben, 1948
• Heroin, 1951

References

1. Jon Hughes, 'Facts and Fiction: Rudolf Brunngraber, Otto Neurath, and Viennese Neue Sachlichkeit ', in Deborah Holmes & Lisa Silverman, eds., Interwar Vienna: culture between tradition and modernity, Camden House, 2009, pp.206-223
2. Christoph Fuchs, 'Rudolf Brunngraber, 1901–1960', Literatur und Kritik 317-18 (September 1997), pp.103-9
3. Neil H. Donahue, Doris Kirchner, Flight of fantasy: new perspectives on inner emigration in German literature, p.182

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