Author · Austria
Ödön von Horváth
Died in 1938
Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) was born in Fiume, the son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, and grew up between Belgrade, Budapest, Pressburg, Vienna and Munich, with German as his mother tongue. His theatre exposes the petty bourgeoisie through its language, that borrowed Bildungsjargon by which it imitates cultivated speech, and warns against fascism; he received the Kleist Prize in 1931. Exiled in Vienna in 1934, then in Paris in 1938, he died there at thirty-six, killed on the Champs-Élysées by a tree branch during a storm.
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- NovelA Child of Our TimeEin Kind unserer ZeitÖdön von Horváth · 1938LiteraturePublic domain