biography
pronunciation:
[yost]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1978)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Seerhausen near Riesa, E Germany. He began as an Expressionist, as in his play Der junge Mensch (1916), and went on to become the most important poet of the Nazi Party. He was president of the Reichsschrifttumskammer (1935–45) and a member of the SS, and in Schlageter (1933) he declared his support for Nazi ideology. He was banned from writing for several years after the War. |
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