biography
pronunciation:
[fleks]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1917)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Eisenach, C Germany. After serving as tutor to the Bismarcks, he volunteered for service in World War 1, where he met the leader of the ‘Wandervogel’ youth movement, Ernst Wurche, whose motto ‘Rein bleiben und reif werden’ (‘stay pure, become mature’) inspired Flex to his 1917 war novel Der Wanderer zwischen beiden Welten. This work exercised a profound influence on the post-war younger generation, who viewed Flex as their ideal and spokesman, although after 1945 it was long rejected as nationalistic. Generally neo-Romantic in tone, his other works include the tragedy Klaus von Bismarck (1913), the poems Vom großen Abendmahl (1915), and the novella Wallensteins Antlitz (1918). |
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