JOSEPH ROTH'S CAREER IN OVERVIEW
1894 - Born in Brody in Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Ukraine) to Jewish parents
1913-16 - Study at the Universities of Lemberg and Vienna
1916-18 - Service in the Austrian army during the War, primarily in military press corps
1918 - Start of career as a journalist in Vienna
1920-33 - Highly successful career as a journalist for German newspapers, including the Frankfurter Zeitung; from 1925 long periods of travel in France, USSR, Italy, Albania, Poland
1922 - marriage to Friederike (Friedl) Reichler
1923 - Das Spinnennetz serialised October-November
1924 - First published novels: Hotel Savoy and Die Rebellion
1925 - France correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung
1926 - Long period of travel in USSR
1927 - Die Flucht ohne Ende; Juden auf Wandershaft
1928 - Zipper und sein Vater; wife Friedl becomes permanently ill with schizophrenia
1929 - Rechts und Links; Der stumme Prophet (unpublished); Perlefter (unfinished)
1930 - Hiob - a short novel reworking the story of Job, and an international success
1932 - Radetzkymarsch, Roth's longest and most acclaimed novel, describing the decline of a family in the final years of the Habsburg empire
1933-39 - Exile from Germany at the end of January '33; Roth's work is blacklisted by the National Socialist regime; advocacy of the Habsburg monarchist cause favouring a reuniting of the countries formerly constituting the 'supra-national' Austrian empire; continued activity as a journalist for exile journals in Paris and Prague; increasingly severe alcoholism
1934 - Tarabas; Der Antichrist (all work now published in Netherlands)
1935 - Die hundert Tage
1936 - Beichte eines Moerders
1937 - Das falsche Gewicht
1938 - Die Kapuzinergruft, a sequel to Radetzkymarsch hurriedly completed in response to the annexation of Austria
1939 - Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker; Die Geschichte von der 1002. Nacht; Roth collapses on hearing of the suicide of the playwright Ernst Toller and dies on 27 May; buried in the Thiais cemetery south of Paris