Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Peter Handke, Ernst Junger, Rudolf Kassner, Golo Mann, Martin Walser, Alexander Kluge, Max Frisch, Christa Wolf, Gunter Eich, Volker Braun, Botho Strauss, Tankred Dorst, Christoph Hein, Werner Bergengruen, Kate Hamburger. Excerpt: Rudolf Kassner (11 September 1873 - 1 April 1959) was an Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher. Although stricken as an infant with poliomyelitis, Kassner traveled widely to northern Africa, the Sahara, India, Russia, Spain, and throughout Europe. His translations of William Blake introduced this English romantic poet to German-speaking audiences. His literary career covered six decades, including a period of isolation during the Nazi years in Vienna. His writings on physiognomy reflect his effort to understand the problems of modernity and Man's subsequent disconnectedness from time and place. His later autobiographical writings suggest a brilliant literary mind attempting to make sense of a chaotic post-nuclear world. Before his birth, Rudolf Kassner's family emigrated to Moravia (at the time part of Austro-Hungary) from Silesia. His father, Oskar Kassner, was a landowner and factory owner, descended from government officials and businessmen. His maternal ancestors were peasants.Kassner regarded himself as a German-Slavic mixture, having inherited German Blut (German: blood) from his mother and a Slavic Geist (German: spirit) from his father (Das physiognomische Weltbild, 116ff.). The seventh of 10 children, Rudolf Kassner was born on 11 September 1873 in Gross-Pavlowitz in southern Moravia, near Znaim. Shortly after Kassner's birth, his father moved the family to the countryside near Nikolsburg, where he leased imperial property, profitably cultivated beets, and ran a sugar factory. Kassner contracted poliomyelitis at nine months of age, wh..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Schiller Memorial Prize Winners: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Peter Handke, Ernst Junger, Rudolf Kassner, Golo Mann, Martin Walser, Alexander Kluge. To get started finding Schiller Memorial Prize Winners: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Peter Handke, Ernst Junger, Rudolf Kassner, Golo Mann, Martin Walser, Alexander Kluge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Schiller Memorial Prize Winners: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Peter Handke, Ernst Junger, Rudolf Kassner, Golo Mann, Martin Walser, Alexander Kluge
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Peter Handke, Ernst Junger, Rudolf Kassner, Golo Mann, Martin Walser, Alexander Kluge, Max Frisch, Christa Wolf, Gunter Eich, Volker Braun, Botho Strauss, Tankred Dorst, Christoph Hein, Werner Bergengruen, Kate Hamburger. Excerpt: Rudolf Kassner (11 September 1873 - 1 April 1959) was an Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher. Although stricken as an infant with poliomyelitis, Kassner traveled widely to northern Africa, the Sahara, India, Russia, Spain, and throughout Europe. His translations of William Blake introduced this English romantic poet to German-speaking audiences. His literary career covered six decades, including a period of isolation during the Nazi years in Vienna. His writings on physiognomy reflect his effort to understand the problems of modernity and Man's subsequent disconnectedness from time and place. His later autobiographical writings suggest a brilliant literary mind attempting to make sense of a chaotic post-nuclear world. Before his birth, Rudolf Kassner's family emigrated to Moravia (at the time part of Austro-Hungary) from Silesia. His father, Oskar Kassner, was a landowner and factory owner, descended from government officials and businessmen. His maternal ancestors were peasants.Kassner regarded himself as a German-Slavic mixture, having inherited German Blut (German: blood) from his mother and a Slavic Geist (German: spirit) from his father (Das physiognomische Weltbild, 116ff.). The seventh of 10 children, Rudolf Kassner was born on 11 September 1873 in Gross-Pavlowitz in southern Moravia, near Znaim. Shortly after Kassner's birth, his father moved the family to the countryside near Nikolsburg, where he leased imperial property, profitably cultivated beets, and ran a sugar factory. Kassner contracted poliomyelitis at nine months of age, wh..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Schiller Memorial Prize Winners: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Peter Handke, Ernst Junger, Rudolf Kassner, Golo Mann, Martin Walser, Alexander Kluge. To get started finding Schiller Memorial Prize Winners: Friedrich Durrenmatt, Peter Handke, Ernst Junger, Rudolf Kassner, Golo Mann, Martin Walser, Alexander Kluge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.