Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus was born in 1874 in Jičín, in Bohemia, into a family of Jewish manufacturers who settled in Vienna three years later. In 1899 he founded the review Die Fackel, which from 1911 he wrote alone and ran for thirty-seven years, devoted to taking apart the sentences of the Viennese press, whose language he regarded as the very instrument of war and corruption. He gave well-attended public readings and converted to Catholicism in 1911. He lived off his review, with no employer and no party, and died in Vienna in 1936.

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• TheatreThe Last Days of MankindDie letzten Tage der MenschheitKarl Kraus · 1922LiteraturePublic domain