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    Jakob Wassermann (10 March 1873 – 1 January 1934) was a German writer and novelist. Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his...
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  • and director Walter Wassermann (1883–1944), German screenwriter Zbigniew Wassermann (1949–2010), Polish politician Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis, a Bavarian...
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  • The Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis (lit. 'Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize') is a Bavarian literary prize. It is granted in honour to the famous Jewish...
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    A character in The Story of Young Renate Fuchs, by German novelist Jakob Wassermann (1873–1934), is named Gregor Samassa. The Viennese author Leopold von...
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    1996, Fürth has awarded the Jakob-Wassermann prize, a prize for literature in honour of Fürth's famous author Jakob Wassermann. In the sporting world, Fürth...
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    Contributors included Hermann Hesse, Gustav Meyrink, Fanny zu Reventlow, Jakob Wassermann, Frank Wedekind, Heinrich Kley, Alfred Kubin, Otto Nückel, Robert Walser...
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    Civilization" literati: (Oskar Maria Graf, Heinrich Mann, Stefan Zweig, Jakob Wassermann, Franz Blei); Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field;...
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    Especially writers and intellectuals, for example Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Jakob Wassermann, Theodor Herzl and Friedrich Torberg, spent their summer holidays in...
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    Mahler, the politicians Karl Renner and Julius Tandler and the writers Jakob Wassermann and Stefan Zweig. Ferdinand later purchased other works by Klimt. In...
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    Alfred Kerr, Marcel Proust, Erich Maria Remarque, Upton Sinclair, Jakob Wassermann, H. G. Wells, and Émile Zola were publicly burned. Pacifist works,...
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    Buchpreis 2019 Ludwig Börne Prize 2019 Mainzer Stadtschreiber 2023 Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis Die letzte Märchenprinzessin, (with Elisabeth and Robert...
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  • – David Riazanov, Russian theorist and politician (d. 1938) 1873 – Jakob Wassermann, German-Austrian soldier and author (d. 1934) 1876 – Anna Hyatt Huntington...
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    (1870, Vienna–1932), lyricist, dramatist, musicologist and writer Jakob Wassermann [de] (1873, Fürth–1934, Altaussee), writer Stefan Zweig [de] (1881...
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  • European Jewish intellectuals including Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Jakob Wassermann, Erich Fromm, Paul Painlevé, Heinrich Eduard Jacob and Rudolf Olden...
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    Osbick Bird) and Scott McClanahan (Sarah). In 2020 he was awarded the Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis and the prestigious Kleist Prize,[citation needed] in...
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  • 1972 he married Eva Pierrakos, who was the daughter of the writer Jakob Wassermann. In the late 1940s, Pierrakos came to know Reich and studied with him...
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    Torberg B. Traven Leon Trotsky Kurt Tucholsky Mark Twain Voltaire Jakob Wassermann Armin T. Wegner Simone Weil H. G. Wells Franz Werfel Oscar Wilde Eugen...
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    Busoni (1906) Poster for the play Die Weber by Gerhart Hauptmann (1897) Jakob Wassermann, novelist (1899) Bookplate for the books of Franz Anderle Kout v mém...
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    Almeida, Ferenc Móra, Erich Mühsam, Arthur Wing Pinero, Thorne Smith, Jakob Wassermann, Brand Whitlock and Paul Zarifopol died in 1934 without having been...
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    Schnitzler, Anna Seghers, Hermann Broch, Franz Werfel, Joseph Roth, Jakob Wassermann, and Stefan Zweig. Isaak Babel (1894–1940) was a Soviet journalist...
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  • prominent physician in Vienna and her mother was the sister of novelist Jakob Wassermann. She originally trained as a pianist at the Wiener Musikakademie (also...
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    Lecca, Romanian dramatist, poet and translator (died 1920) March 10 – Jakob Wassermann, German novelist (died 1934) March 20 – Constantin Banu, Romanian politician...
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    [Beware, Comrade Mandelbaum], 1979 Jossel Wassermans Heimkehr [Jossel Wassermann's Return], 1993 Moskauer Orgasmus [Moscow Orgasm], 1997 Die Abenteuer des...
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    translated from the German into English works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Jakob Wassermann and Franz Werfel. In 1943 he became the editor of The New Palestine...
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    Aufruhr um den Junker Ernst (The uproar over the junker Ernst), by Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934), published in 1926 by S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin, took...
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  • (1920) Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger (1903), and Doctor Faustus (1947) Jakob Wassermann's 1915 Das Gänsemännchen Rainer Maria Rilke's 1910 The Notebooks of...
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    Remarque Adolf Rudnicki Moses Schorr Antoni Słonimski Julian Tuwim Jakob Wassermann Bruno Winawer Józef Wittlin Stefan Zweig Film actors and actresses...
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  • Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V. Volkach Irseer Pegasus Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis Jean-Paul-Preis Landshuter Jugendbuchpreis Literaturpreis...
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  • March 1921. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Jakob Wassermann. The film is extant, and was restored in 2018 by the...
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    also the protagonist in the historical novel The Gold of Caxamalca by Jakob Wassermann. Pizarro is a character in "Surya kandle Sona" (The golden tears of...
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