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Born September 10, 1890 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died August 26, 1945 (aged 54) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works “Jakobowsky und der Oberst” • “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” • “The Song of Bernadette” • “Trojan Women”
Movement / Style Expressionism
Notable Family Members spouse Alma Mahler

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Klabund
German writer
Toller
Ernst Toller
German writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer
German playwright
Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Volker Braun
German author
Kästner, 1970
Erich Kästner
German author
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Holtei, Karl von
Karl von Holtei
German author
Else Lasker-Schüler
German author
Fritz von Unruh.
Fritz von Unruh
German author
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Austrian writer
Ilse Aichinger
Austrian author
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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