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Ernst Weiss
1882–1940
A Prague-born Austrian writer and trained physician, he turned exile, history, and psychological strain into intense, searching fiction. His work is often remembered for its sharp view of Europe in crisis and for the posthumous novel The Eyewitness.
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Der Fall Vukobrankovics
by Ernst Weiss
Die Verdorrten
by Ernst Weiss
About the author
Born in Prague in 1882, Ernst Weiss studied medicine and worked as a doctor before building his reputation as a German-language novelist. He moved in the literary world of early 20th-century Central Europe and is often linked with writers such as Franz Kafka and Max Brod.
His fiction is known for its psychological focus and for drawing on the anxieties of his time. After the rise of Nazism, Weiss lived in exile in Paris; his best-known novel, The Eyewitness, was published after his death and is widely noted for its unsettling portrait of the Hitler era.
Weiss died in Paris in 1940 as German forces entered the city. Although his life was cut short by war and exile, his books remain part of the story of modern Austrian and Central European literature.