Rudolf Brunngraber

Brunngraber, Rudolf (Vienna, 1901-60, Vienna), an early exponent of the technological novel dealing with specific materials (Radium, 1936; Opiumkrieg, 1939; Zucker aus Kuba, 1941; Heroin, 1951). In Die Engel in Atlantis (1938), which mingles the biblical and the futuristic, he rejects the conception of a perfect technological world and shows its annihilation in the Deluge, which only Noah, the man of God, survives.