biography
pronunciation:
[krows]
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| lived:
| (1874–1936)
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| biography:
| Austrian writer, born in Jicin, Bohemia, NC Czech Republic. He was the member of a prosperous Austrian Jewish family, and converted to Catholicism in 1911. A journalist, he founded his own literary periodical Die Fackel (1899), contributors to which included August Strindberg and Thomas Mann. From 1912 he published only his own critical and often satirical essays and poetry in Die Fackel, which remains a vital piece of literary history. The issue focusing on the Third Reich was withdrawn before publication in 1933 and appeared posthumously in 1958. He is also known for his play Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1918–19) about World War 1. |
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