Odon Von Horvath - Böcker

Set in the socially and economically oppressed Vienna of the early thirties, this play is the story of a young girl's struggle to survive in the city, a victim of forces she does not comprehend. As the play opens, she is trying to sell her bo...

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'Don't spoil her, Oskar, or you'll pay dear for it. You wouldn't believe what I had to put up with in my marriage. Not because madam, my wife, God bless her, was a vicious-tongued cow, but because I was too decent. Never lose your authority! Keep ...

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It's another normal day at a small-town station, where a handful of passengers are waiting for the stopping train. Thomas Hudetz, the well-liked station master, is momentarily distracted by a young woman. Seconds later eighteen people are dea...

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Set in the socially and economically oppressed Vienna of the early thirties, this play is the story of a young girl's struggle to survive in the city, a victim of forces she does not comprehend. As the play opens, she is trying to sell her bo...

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The old man started to talk about the trial. He blamed everyone involved, including the teacher, i.e. me. In his view the root cause of the problem was that everybody involved - teachers, parents, boys - behaved as if God no longer existed.A schoo...

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Written in exile, Horvath's masterwork is a darkly disturbing evocation of life in fascist Germany.

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This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally funny look at the human comedy on the eve of Europe's decent into Fascism. It tells the tale of a failed used car salesman who wants to live the high...

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Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenportrÿt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit den Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.ÿdön von Horváths...

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Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenportrÿt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit den Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.Alkohol im ÿberflus...

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Mit den beiden Stcken Eine Unbekannte aus der Seine (1933) und Hin und her (1934) lotet Horvth in politisch prekren Zeiten die Mglichkeiten der Komdienform nach zwei Richtungen aus. Eine Unbekannte aus der Seine schliet an seine groen Volksstcke a...

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Mit seinem Roman Jugend ohne Gott, der im Oktober 1937 im Amsterdamer Exil-Verlag Allert de Lange erschienen ist, etablierte sich Horvth nicht nur als antifaschistischer Autor, sondern erlangte auch internationale Reputation. Der Roman wurde bald ...

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