biography
pronunciation:
[toler]
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| lived:
| (1893–1939)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Samotschin, Poland. Badly wounded in World War 1, he finished his law studies in Munich and Heidelberg, became a member of the council of the Workers Republic in Bavaria, and was subsequently imprisoned for five years. He wrote anti-war Expressionist plays and was a major exponent of political theatre, as seen in Masse Mensch (1921), Die Maschinenstürmer (1922), and Hinkemann (1924). He also wrote poetry and essays, and his autobiography Eine Jugend in Deutschland is an important document for students of the Expressionist movement. In 1933 he emigrated to the USA and committed suicide in New York in 1939. |
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