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11.	Ernst Toller in Nieder-Schönfeld Prison (1919-24) Playwright Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Bavarian Soviet Republic [Bayerische Räterepublik]. While in prison he wrote many of the works....
12.	Rainer Maria Rilke with the Painter Baladine Klossowska and her Son Balthus (1922) Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), is widely regarded as one of the most significant poets in the German language. The themes of transience and transformation which he explored in his poetry mirrored....
13.	Oswald Spengler (1930) One of the foundational texts of the German Right, Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West was published in two volumes between 1918 and 1922 and had sold more than one hundred thousand....
14.	A Meeting of the Poetry Section of the Prussian Academy of Art (November 1929) Founded in 1694 in Berlin by Frederick I of Prussia, the Prussian Academy of Art created the Section for Poetic Arts [Sektion für Dichtkunst] in October 1926 as the “expert advisor and approving....
15.	Stefan George (n.d.) Stefan George (1868-1933), who espoused an elitist poetic ethos hostile to mass culture, is remembered chiefly as a proponent of fin-de-siecle aestheticism and for the small circle of devoted....
16.	Bertolt Brecht (right) with Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya (1930) Lotte Lenya (1898-1981) was born Karoline WIlhelmine Charlotte Blamauer in Vienna and moved to Berlin in 1921 to find work in the theater. In 1926, she married the composer ....
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