Ilse Barea-Kulcsar

Ilse Barea-Kulcsar
Born
Ilse Wilhelmine Elfriede Pollak

(1902-09-20)20 September 1902
Died1 January 1973(1973-01-01) (aged 70)
Vienna, Austria
Burial placeAll Saints' Church, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England
Citizenship Austria
United Kingdom (from 1948)
EducationBlack Forest School
Alma materFaculty of Political Sciences and Law, University of Vienna
OccupationsJournalist, writer, translator, communist and anti-fascist activist
Employer(s)Rote Fahne
Der Funke
Time and Tide
New Statesman
Times Literary Supplement
Tribune
BBC
Organization(s)Communist International
Working Group of Socialist Translators and Interpreters
Notable workVienna: Legend and Reality (1966)
Political partySocialist Students of Austria (VSStÖ)
Socialist Youth Austria (SJÖ)
Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP)
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)
Labour Party (UK)
Other political
affiliations
Neu Beginnen
MovementAustrian Civil War
Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War
Spouse(s)Leopold Kulcsar (m. 1922, d. 1938)
Arturo Barea (m. 1938, d. 1957)

Ilse Wilhelmine Elfriede Barea-Kulcsar (née Pollak; 20 September 1902 – 1 January 1973), also known as Ilsa, was an Austrian journalist, novelist, translator and teacher. She was also a communist political activist, anti-fascist activist and resistance fighter who campaigned in Austria, volunteered in the Spanish Civil War and went into exile in Britain.