Ödön von Horváth





Ödön von Horváth

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born
December 09, 1901 in Sušak, Rijeka, Croatia

died
June 01, 1938

gender
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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


Average rating: 3.72 · 545 ratings · 24 reviews · 31 distinct works
Jugend ohne Gott
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1937 — 19 editions
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Geschichten aus dem Wiener ...
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions
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Glaube Liebe Hoffnung
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1932 — 5 editions
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Kasimir und Karoline (Suhrk...
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3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions
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The Eternal Philistine
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Italienische Nacht
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Sportmärchen, andere Prosa ...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Don Juan Comes Back from th...
2.83 of 5 stars 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions
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Der Jüngste Tag Und Andere ...
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
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36 Stunden
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions
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