biography
pronunciation:
[foykhtvanger]
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| lived:
| (1884–1958)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Munich, SE Germany. He studied in Berlin and Munich, and won a European reputation with the 18th-c historical novel Jud Süss (1925), as well as the 14th-c tale Die hässliche Herzogin (1923), which as The Ugly Duchess (1927) was a great success in Britain. His thinly disguised satire on Hitler's Munich putsch, Erfolg (1930, Success), earned him the hatred of the Nazis. In 1933 he fled to France, where in 1940 he was interned by the German army, but escaped to the USA. He also wrote numerous dramas, and collaborated with Brecht in a translation of Marlowe's Edward II. His later works included detailed part-biographies of Goya (1952) and Rousseau (1954). |
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