Gabriel Laub

Gabriel Laub (24 October 1928 in Bochnia, Poland – 3 February 1998 in Hamburg, Germany) was a Czech- and German-speaking journalist, political satirist and aphorism writer.

Due to his Jewish heritage, he fled with his parents during the invasion of Poland in 1939.

They fled to the Soviet Union but were interned for sixteen months in what is now Uzbekistan.

[1] After World War II, he moved to Prague where he studied journalism and worked as an editor and writer until 1968.

[2] Following the defeat of the Prague Spring reforms, he fled to Hamburg.