biography
pronunciation:
[kasak]
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| lived:
| (1896–1966)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Potsdam, EC Germany. He was the co-founder of the German PEN club and the director of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (1953–63). A friend of Oskar Loerke, his ideas were influenced by existentialism, Buddhism, and Schopenhauer, and his writing by James Joyce and Franz Kafka. His major work is the novel Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (1947), a nightmarish portrayal of a completely soulless post-war dictatorship. |
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