Austria: Alexander Roda Roda

On 27th April I got nine postcards: two from Austria, three from Turkey and four from Germany.

One of the cards from Austria shows Alexander Roda Roda. Alexander Roda Roda was an Austrian writer and satirist born in 1872. Since 1911 he was writing articles for the Neue Freie Presse, one of Austria's most respected newspapers, and especially during World War I produced over 700 articles as war correspondent for the paper. He also contributed to the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus and in the 1920s his humorous and satirical book publications were largely successful. He lived in Germany when the Nazis seized power in 1933, which forced him to move to Graz, which again he left after the Anschluss in 1938 for Switzerland and later the USA. Alexander Roda Roda died in New York in 1945. 

For Alexander Roda Roda's 150th birthday the Austrian Post issued the big souvenir sheet used here on 22nd April.

Thank You very much Anita!