biography
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Edschmid, Kasimir
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originally Eduard Schmid
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pronunciation:
[etshmit]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1966)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Darmstadt, WC Germany. He wrote for several newspapers, including the Expressionist papers Der Sturm and Die weissen Blätter. A major Expressionist writer, his early work includes Die sechs Mündungen (1915), Das rasende Leben (1916), and Timur (1916), and he also wrote about the genre in essays including Über der Expressionismus in Literatur und die neue Dichtung (1919). Later he adopted a more naturalistic style, also writing travel books and biographies such as Lord Byron (1928). During the Third Reich he was prohibited from writing or speaking in public. |
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