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Edmund Josef von Horváth 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. He enjoyed a series of successes on the stage with socially poignant and romantic plays, including Revolte auf Côte 3018 (1927), Sladek (1929), Italienische Nacht…
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culture · Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist (1901–1938) · playwright · writer · screenwriter · also Ödön von Horváth, Ödön v. Horvath, Edmund Josef von Horváth, Edmund Josef von Horvath, Ödön von Horvath, Horváth
Born 9 December 1901 · Died 1 June 1938 · Q84455
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If you ask me what is my native country, I answer: I was born in Fiume, grew up in Belgrade, Budapest, Pressburg (Bratislava), Vienna and Munich, and I have a Hungarian passport, but I have no fatherland. I am a very typical mix of old Austria-Hungary: at once Magyar, Croatian, German and Czech; my country is Hungary; my mother tongue is German.
Nichts gibt so sehr das Gefühl der Unendlichkeit als wie die Dummheit.
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“If you ask me what is my native country, I answer: I was born in Fiume, grew up in Belgrade, Budapest, Pressburg (Bratislava), Vienna and Munich, and I have a Hungarian passport, but I have no fatherland. I am a very typical mix of old Austria-Hungary: at once Magyar, Croatian, German and Czech; my country is Hungary; my mother tongue is German.”
British Theatre: Judgment Day by Ödön von Horváth Returns to the Old Red Lion Theatre This September
Stuttgart: Back and forth - A farce in two parts (by Ödön von Horváth)
The Guardian: Translation Tuesday: A Little Love Story by Ödön von Horváth
On the 50th anniversary of his death, his remains were transferred to Vienna and reinterred at the Heiligenstädter Friedhof
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Died 1938-06-01.
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“Nichts gibt so sehr das Gefühl der Unendlichkeit als wie die Dummheit.”
Horváth emigrated to Paris
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At the beginning of the Nazi regime in Germany, he relocated to Vienna
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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Awarded Kleist Prize (1931).
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Was awarded, along with Erik Reger, the Kleist Prize
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Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1921).
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Horváth attended secondary school in Pressburg and Vienna, where he learned German as a second language, and earned the Matura (secondary school diploma) then reunited with his parents at Murnau am Staffelsee, in Upper B
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His father was ennobled and assigned to Munich, unaccompanied
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Born 1901-12-09.
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