page_title: Hugo Bettauer
hierarchical_section_title: Hugo Bettauer
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hugo Bettauer (1872–1925), österreichischer Journalist und Schriftsteller, der Opfer einer national-antisemitisch orientierte Hetzkampagne wurde, als ein fanatisiertes NSDAP-Mitglied ihn erschoss. English: Hugo Bettauer (1850–1925), Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his opposition to antisemitism.
context_page_description: Hugo Bettauer, born Maximilian Hugo Bettauer, was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his opposition to antisemitism. He was well known in his lifetime; many of his books were bestsellers and in the 1920s a number were made into films, most notably Die freudlose Gasse, which dealt with prostitution, and Die Stadt ohne Juden, a satire against antisemitism.
context_section_description: Hugo Bettauer (18 August 1872 – 26 March 1925), born Maximilian Hugo Bettauer, was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his opposition to antisemitism. He was well known in his lifetime; many of his books were bestsellers and in the 1920s a number were made into films, most notably Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1925), which dealt with prostitution, and Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews, directed by Hans Karl Breslauer, 1924), a satire against antisemitism.
caption: Hugo Bettauer sometime between 1910 and 1920
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