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Georg Hermann: A Writer's Life

Georg Hermann: A Writer's Life

Hardcover

Series: Germanic Literatures, Book 19

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismHolocaust

ISBN10: 1781888558
ISBN13: 9781781888551
Publisher: Legenda
Published: May 27 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.56
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Following the success of his novel Jettchen Gebert (1906), Georg Hermann (1871-1943) became one of Germany's best-loved authors: Schnitzler called him 'the Jewish Fontane'. A Berliner himself, Hermann was celebrated for capturing the spirit and atmosphere of the city, and renowned for his Impressionistic ability to evoke mood and ambience. He became a prominent opponent of war in 1914, and his journalism during the Weimar years shows him to have been one of the first writers to recognise the threat posed by the rising tide of anti-Semitism. Facing arrest in March 1933, he went into exile in the Netherlands, but continued to publish new novels, most notably Rosenemil (1935). Following the German occupation, Hermann was incarcerated in Westerbork in June 1943. He was transported from there to Auschwitz, where he died.

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