Twentieth of July

Austrian novella
Twentieth of July
AuthorAlexander Lernet-Holenia
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman
GenreDrama
Publication date
1947
Media typePrint

Twentieth of July (German: Der Zwanzigiste Juli) is a 1947 novella by the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia. During the Nazi era an aristocratic Austria woman lends her papers to a Jewish acquaintance, only to find herself without an identity when the woman dies.

In 1948 it was adapted into a film The Other Life starring Aglaja Schmid, Robert Lindner and Gustav Waldau.[1]

References

  1. ^ von Dassanowsky p.129

Bibliography

  • Robert von Dassanowsky. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Prose fiction
  • I Was Jack Mortimer (1933)
  • The Standard (1934)
  • Baron Bagge (1936)
  • Mars in Aries (1941)
  • Twentieth of July (1947)
  • The Count of Saint Germain (1948)
  • Count Luna (1955)
Screenplays
  • Die Entlassung (1942)
  • The Great Love (1942)
  • On Resonant Shores (1948)
  • Espionage (1955)
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