Ivan Olbracht

Who was Ivan Olbracht?

Ivan Olbracht was a Czech writer, journalist and translator of German prose.

The son of writer Antal Stašek, Olbracht studied law and philosophy in Prague and Berlin. In 1905, he first began editing a social-democratic workers' newspaper in Vienna, and later he did the same in Prague. In 1921, Olbracht joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and began working as a journalist, primarily for Rudé právo. He was twice imprisoned due to his excessively revolutionary political opinions, first in 1926 and later in 1928.