biography
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Hoddis, Jakob van
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originally Hans Davidsohn
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pronunciation:
[hodis]
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| lived:
| (1887–1942)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Berlin, Germany. He was one of the founders of the early Expressionist ‘Neuer Club’ and ‘Neopathetic Cabaret’ in Berlin. His poetry, which was published in periodicals such as Aktion and Sturm, is melancholic and visionary. Favoured themes are city life, the catastrophic and the apocalyptic, as in ‘Weltende’ (1918), a major Expressionist poem. He suffered from mental illness and died while being deported in 1942. |
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