Egon Friedell
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Egon Friedell was a prominent Austrian cultural historian, playwright, actor and Kabarett performer, journalist and theatre critic. Friedell has been described as a polymath. Before 1916, he was also
Egon Friedell
Friedell's home 1900–1938 in Gentzgasse 7, Währing, Vienna
Ödön von Horváth
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Edmund Josef von Horváth was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the nom de plume Ödön von Horváth. He was one of the most critically admired writers of his ge
Egon Friedell
…or destroyed. Friedell, knowing that he could be arrested by the Gestapo, began to contemplate ending his own life. Friedell told his close friend, Ödön von Horváth, in a letter written on 11 March: "I am always ready to leave, in every sense." On 16 March 1938, at about 22:00, two SA men arrived at Friedell's house…
Von Horváth in 1919
Ödön von Horváth's family tombstone in Vienna