“I Fled to Shanghai” – The Viennese Journalist Ladislaus Frank and His Hungarian Memoir

Ready to go down a transcultural rabbit hole? Learn a lot with minimal effort!

Take 10 minutes to scroll through quickly the adventurous life of a restless journalist from early 20th-century Budapest to Vienna to Shanghai. If you had enough, that’s fine. If not, go deeper!

Immerse yourself and spend 30+ minutes in the world of Ladislaus/László Frank (about whom I wrote earlier), a revolutionary of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic, a socially minded journalist in 1920s Red Vienna, and a founder of refugee newspapers in 1940s Shanghai.

Use your phone for the carefully selected images that guide you through this experience, or take your time on your computer/tablet and lose yourself in the multi-layered historical maps.

That’s what I’ve been up to in the past month I spent in Vienna as the GLORE project’s Visiting Fellow. Enjoy, and please share! 

Here’s the link for the full view, but you can sneak peek below.