Felix Langer: diaries

Felix Langer was born in Bruenn, Moravia (Brno, Czec Republic) on 18 June, 1889 and died London 1980. He studied law and political science at the university of Vienna; was a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian army during WWI; and was a director of relief work for POWs in Siberia at the end of the war. Between 1920 and 1933 he worked as a journalist and writer in Berlin. He was an author of stage and radio plays and film scripts. He was also a contributor to Berliner Tageblatt, among other papers. He emigrated to Bruenn in 1933 where he was a regular contributor to a number of newspapers. In 1939 he emigrated to Great Britain where he became an active member of Club 43, and wrote a number of books, including his best known, <em>Stepping Stones to Peace</em>, (London, 1942). The diaries contain mostly sparse notes often barely legible. A large part of the content relates to books. Open