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Born September 10, 1890 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died August 26, 1945 (aged 54) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works “Jakobowsky und der Oberst” • “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” • “The Song of Bernadette” • “Trojan Women”
Movement / Style Expressionism
Notable Family Members spouse Alma Mahler

Photos

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portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer
German playwright
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
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Volker Braun
German author
Kästner, 1970
Erich Kästner
German author
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Holtei, Karl von
Karl von Holtei
German author
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Else Lasker-Schüler
German author
Fritz von Unruh.
Fritz von Unruh
German author
Toller
Ernst Toller
German writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Portrait of Austrian author Alexander Lernet-Holenia, an older man in a suit and tie, seated and looking toward the camera with a slight smile.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Austrian writer
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Ilse Aichinger
Austrian author
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer

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