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Edmund Josef von Horváth (9 December 1901, in Sušak, Rijeka, Austria-Hungary – 1 June 1938, in Paris, French Third Republic) was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the nom de plume Ödön von Horváth. He was one of the most critically admired writers of his generation prior to his untimely death.
Biografie. Ödön Josip von Horváth entstammte dem ungarischen Kleinadel und wurde am 9. Dezember 1901 in Fiume, dem heutigen Rijeka (damals ungarisch, heute kroatisch), geboren. Als Sohn eines Diplomaten wurde Ödön liberal und weltoffen erzogen.
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Ödön Edmund Josef von Horváth (born December 9, 1901, Fiume, Hungary [now Rijeka, Croatia]—died June 1, 1938, Paris, France) was a Hungarian novelist and playwright who was one of the most promising German-language dramatists of the 1930s and one of the earliest antifascist writers in Germany.
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Edmund (Ödön) Josef von Horváth (* 9. Dezember 1901 in Sušak, Österreich-Ungarn; † 1. Juni 1938 in Paris) war ein auf Deutsch schreibender Schriftsteller ungarischer Staatsbürgerschaft: „Meine Muttersprache ist die deutsche.“. [1] Bekannt wurde er unter anderem durch seine Stücke Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald, Glaube Liebe ...
Hungarian writer Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938) captured in his novels and plays the degradation of language and the bitterness of lower-middle-class life that preceded the emergence of Nazism. Well known in German-speaking countries, he is regarded as a writer who saw fascism coming and grasped the underlying social trends that produced it.
Dec 11, 2019 · After directing Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape to monumental dark beauty in the space two years ago, Richard Jones returns with Ödön von Horváth’s Judgment Day (Der jüngste Tag), written in 1937 and clearly from the fear of mob rule burgeoning under Hitler’s Nazi influence.
Apr 12, 2019 · In recent seasons, Odon von Horvath has become one of the most performed playwrights in the German-speaking world. But who is he, and why is he so popular now?
