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Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
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Born 28 April 1874 · Died 12 June 1936 · Q44328
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1936· 1 entry
Died 1936-06-12.
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1934· 1 entry
Hoping Engelbert Dollfuss could prevent Nazism from engulfing Austria, he supported Dollfuss's coup d'état, which established the Austrian fascist regime
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1933· 1 entry
Kraus wrote Die Dritte Walpurgisnacht (The Third Walpurgis Night), of which the first fragments appeared in Die Fackel
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1932· 1 entry
Kraus translated Shakespeare's sonnets
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1928· 1 entry
The play Die Unüberwindlichen (The Insurmountables) was published
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1927· 1 entry
On the powerful Vienna police chief Johann Schober, also a former two-term chancellor, after 89 rioters were shot dead by the police during the 1927 July Revolt
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1926· 1 entry
Békessy indeed fled Vienna to avoid arrest
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1920· 1 entry
Published the satire Literatur oder man wird doch da sehn (Literature, or You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet) as a reply to Franz Werfel's Spiegelmensch (Mirror Man), an attack against Kraus
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1919· 1 entry
Kraus published his collected war texts under the title Weltgericht (World Court of Justice)
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1915· 1 entry
And first published it as a series of special Fackel issues in 1919
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1914· 1 entry
When expressionist poets like Richard Dehmel began producing war propaganda, Kraus became a fierce critic of them
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1911· 1 entry
Kraus was baptized as a Catholic, but in 1923, disillusioned by the Church's support for the war, he left the Catholic Church, claiming sarcastically that he was motivated "primarily by antisemitism", i
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1907· 1 entry
Kraus attacked his erstwhile benefactor Maximilian Harden because of his role in the Eulenburg trial in the first of his spectacular Erledigungen (Dispatches)
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1906· 1 entry
Kraus published the first of his aphorisms in Die Fackel; they were collected in 1909 in the book Sprüche und Widersprüche (Sayings and Gainsayings)
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1904· 1 entry
Kraus supported Frank Wedekind to make possible the staging in Vienna of his controversial play Pandora's Box; the play told the story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises in German society through her relations
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1902· 1 entry
Kraus published Sittlichkeit und Kriminalität (Morality and Criminal Justice), for the first time commenting on what was to become one of his main preoccupations: he attacked the general opinion of the time that it was n
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1901· 2 entries
Kraus found out that his publisher, Moriz Frisch, had taken over his magazine while he was absent on a months-long journey
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Kraus was sued by Hermann Bahr and Emmerich Bukovics, who felt they had been attacked in Die Fackel
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1897· 1 entry
Kraus broke from this group with a biting satire, Die demolierte Literatur (Demolished Literature), and was named Vienna correspondent for the newspaper Breslauer Zeitung
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1896· 1 entry
Kraus left university without a diploma to begin work as an actor, stage director and performer, joining the Young Vienna group, which included Peter Altenberg, Leopold Andrian, Hermann Bahr, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Arthur
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1894· 1 entry
Changed his field of studies to philosophy and German literature
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-04-28.
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