Stefan Lux

infobox person
birth_date=birth date|1888|11|11
birth_place=city-state|Vienna|Austria
death_date=death date and age|1936|7|3|1888|11|11
death_place=city-state|Geneva|Switzerland
other_names=Peter Sturmsbusch
occupation=Journalist, writer, stage actor, film director

Stefan Lux (November 11, 1888 Vienna – July 3, 1936 Geneva) was a Jewish Czech journalist, who committed suicide in the general assembly room of the League of Nations during its session, July 3 1936, to alert the world on the perils of German antisemitism. After shouting "C'est la dernier coup" ("This is the final blow,") he shot himself with a revolver. [cite web
url=http://www.michaeloren.com/articles/the_rescuer.htm
title="The Rescuer - A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust by David S. Wyman and Rafael Medoff"
author=Michael B. Oren
éditor="The New Republic"
year= 21 octobre 2002
accessdate=2007-07-09]

Lux was as well a writer who published works under the pseudonym of Peter Sturmbusch, a theater actor and a film director. [imdb name | id=1565395| name=Stephan Lux]

Works

*Under Peter Sturmbusch pseudonym:
**"Meine Leider." ; Wien, C. Konegen, 1911. OCLC|79798882
**"Drei Lieder für hohe Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung" ; Julius Rünger; Peter Sturmbusch; Ema Destinnová; Ada Negri; Mainz : B. Schott's Söhne, 1916. OCLC|52499152
**"Liebeslieder." ; Wien: Carl Konegen, 1921. OCLC|34528147
**"Nur keck : Posse mit Gesang in 3 Akten" ; Johann Nestroy; Peter Sturmbusch; Wien : Interterritorialer Verlag "Renaissance" (Erdtracht) 1923. OCLC|72234224
*As film Director:
**1920 - "Gerechtigkeit" [imdb title|id=0136218|title=Gerechtigkeit.]

Memorials

"Amen." a Costa-Gavras' movie of 2002 begins with the suicide of Stefan Lux in Geneva.

ee also

* Self-immolation, suicide for the purpose of protest

References

* Michael Biggs ; [http://www.wz-berlin.de/zkd/zcm/pdf/konferenzen/biggs.pdf "The Transnational Diffusion of Protest by Self-Immolation"] ; Department of Sociology, University of Oxford (2005), p. 17-29
* Betty Sargent ; "The Desperate Mission of Stefan Lux" ; "The Georgia review". 55, no. 4, (2001): 187 ; Athens, University of Georgia. OCLC|95114451
* "Der Opfertod von Genf : die Tat des Stephan Lux vor der Völkerbundsversammlung" in the "Israelitische Wochenblatt für die Schweiz" 10 July 1936.
* Arnold Hahn : "Vor den Augen der Welt ! Warum starb Stefan Lux ? Sein Leben, seine Tat, seine Briefe" (Prag : Verlag der Cechoslovakisches Liga gegen den Antisemitismus, 1936). OCLC|71996332
* Stefan Lux : "Porqué se mató el periodista Stéfan Lux : apuntes para la historia de un mártir del siglo XX." ; Buenos Aires : Columna, 1937. OCLC|77527672
* League of Nations Archives : Registry n° 15/24650/17433.

Persondata
NAME=Lux, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Sturmbusch, Peter
SHORT DESCRIPTION=journalist, writer, film director
DATE OF BIRTH=16 November 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH=Vienna (Austria)
DATE OF DEATH=3 July 1937
PLACE OF DEATH=Geneva Switzerland