Joseph Kalmer

Who was Joseph Kalmer?

Joseph Kalmer was an Austrian writer, poet and translator.

Kalmer attended high school in Czernowitz and gymnasium in Vienna. He started to write during his studies, and later became a journalist. In 1938, after the Anschluss, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and a year later to England where he set up a literary agency.

In 1935, together with Ludwig Huyn, Kalmer wrote a book Abessinien about travel to that country. The book is a vivid and detailed description of the history, people and customs of this ancient country getting dragged into the modern age under threat of war with Italy. The book was translated into several languages.