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Also Known As Robert, Edler von Musil
Born November 6, 1880 • Klagenfurt • Austria
Died April 15, 1942 (aged 61) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “The Man Without Qualities”
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Weiss, Peter
Peter Weiss
German writer
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing
Karl Leberecht Immermann
German author
Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag
German writer
Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer
German playwright
Arthur Schnitzler
Austrian author
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian author
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
Sudermann, detail of an oil painting by Max Slevogt, 1927; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Hermann Sudermann
German writer
Werfel, Franz
Franz Werfel
German writer
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author
Volker Braun
German author