Residence Ludwig Kunz

Luwig Kunz * 1900 in Görlitz † 1976 Amsterdam [Germany] Publisher and writer

The Kunz family owned a textile factory in the center of Görlitz. Ludwig was destined to take over the business. But his interest was art and literature.
A mixture of Wilhel­minian fug and the odeur of fox-stained enlightenment that permeates the intellectual air of the new republic, which still calls itself „Reich“ – and yet he­see the light of day in early January 1923 in Görlitz "Die Lebenden", lite­rarische Flug­blätter, which offer a podium to aus­gegrenz­ten but enga­gierten authors. The editor in 1923–1931 was Ludwig Kunz. Among the contributors were some well-known Jewish and non-Jewish writers such as Alfred Döblin, Carl Hauptmann, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Erich-Maria Remarque and Stefan Zweig.
Ludwig Kunz flees from persecution in 1938 to Holland. He dies in 1976 in Amsterdam

Source: Kulturbüro Görlitz - Persönlichkeiten des Kulturlebens