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Max Herrmann-Neisse
1886–1941
A leading voice of German Expressionism, he wrote poems, fiction, criticism, and theater reviews marked by wit, melancholy, and sharp observation. Forced into exile after the Nazi rise to power, he spent his final years in London, where his writing took on an even deeper sense of loss and displacement.
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Empörung + Andacht, Ewigkeit
by Max Herrmann-Neisse
About the author
Born in Neisse in Silesia on May 23, 1886, Max Herrmann-Neisse was a German writer, poet, and critic. He studied literature and art history in Munich and Breslau, and later became known as one of the notable literary figures of the Weimar era.
He was especially associated with Expressionism, though his work ranged widely across poetry, novels, novellas, essays, and criticism. Friends and contemporaries included major cultural figures of his time, and his distinctive presence made him a memorable subject for portrait artists as well as readers.
After 1933, he fled Germany and eventually settled in London. There he continued to write in exile, but lived in growing isolation and hardship until his death on April 8, 1941.