Ilse Barea-Kulcsar
Ilse Barea-Kulcsar | |
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| Born | Ilse Wilhelmine Elfriede Pollak 20 September 1902 |
| Died | 1 January 1973 (aged 70) Vienna, Austria |
| Burial place | All Saints' Church, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England |
| Citizenship | Austria United Kingdom (from 1948) |
| Education | Black Forest School |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Political Sciences and Law, University of Vienna |
| Occupations | Journalist, 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 work | Vienna: Legend and Reality (1966) |
| Political party | Socialist 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 |
| Movement | Austrian 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.