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Ödön von Horváth

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born

December 09, 1901 in Sušak, Rijeka, Croatia

died

June 01, 1938

gender

male

genre

Drama

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Ödön von Horváth was a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist. Important topics in Horváth's works were popular culture, politics and history. He especially tried to warn of the dawn of fascism and its dangers. Among Horváth's most enduringly popular works, Jugend ohne Gott describes the youth in Nazi Germany from a disgruntled teacher's point of view, who, himself at first an opportunist, is helpless against the racist and militaristic Nazi propaganda that his pupils are subjected to and that de-humanizes them and, at last, loses his job but gains his identity.

Having always lived in fear of being struck by lightning, in Paris Horváth was hit by a falling branch and killed during a thunderstorm on the Champs-Élysées, o...more

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Books by Ödön von Horváth

Average rating: 3.72 · 545 ratings · 24 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Jugend ohne Gott 3.82 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1937 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald. 3.39 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Glaube Liebe Hoffnung 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1932 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Kasimir und Karoline (Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek, Nr. 28) by Ödön von Horváth, Dieter Wöhrle 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Eternal Philistine by Ödön von Horváth, Shalom Auslander (Introduction), Benjamin Dorvel (Translation) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Italienische Nacht 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sportmärchen, andere Prosa und Verse 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Don Juan Comes Back from the War and Figaro Gets Divorced 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Der Jüngste Tag Und Andere Stücke 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	36 Stunden by Ödön von Horváth, Johannes Hollmann (Illustrator), Thomas Kamper (Sprecher) 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	My rating: