I admired Drefus when he was young.
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18861911
Max Herrmann-Neisse, Max Herrmann actually was disabled since childhood, namely treatment miniature, deformed and hunchbacked. His parents allowed him to still attending high school and later university. Even at the school Herrmann-Neisse began to write poems and plays. Moreover, he then made the acquaintance of the also derived from Neisse Franz Jung, with whom he remained for a long time close friend.
From 1905 to 1909 he studied in Munich and Wroclaw literature and art history. In Munich, he came into contact with the local bohemians and frequently visited variety shows and cabarets. In 1909 he left the university without a degree and went back to Neisse, to live as a freelance writer.
The first publications appeared to little notice in 1911 in the journal edited by Franz Pfemfert Action Poems Herrmann-Neisse, and soon afterwards published by Kerr in the pan. Both books were among the leading institutions of modern literature, and made him famous quickly.
19111919
In 1911 he married a native of Nysa also Leni Gebek. In 1914 he received the Eichendorff-price, after the S. Fischer publishing his first book of poems, you larger, and the city appeared. The First World War ruined his parents. His father died in 1916, and his mother drowned herself in 1917 in the Glatzer Neisse. In March 1917 Herrmann-Neisse, and his wife moved to Berlin, where he was in close contact with young, Pfemfert and was left as anarchist circles. During this time he added his name to his hometown of Nysa.
1919 alone, Herrmann-Neisse, published four books (three books of poetry and a play) that the critics and writers such as Else Lasker-Schüler and Oskar were included smitten Loerke. However, this was not enough for subsistence, which he had with journalism as a proofreader and a secure Tätigekeit by S. Fischer. Also 1919 his comedy and Albina Aujust was premiered in Berlin.
Commemorative plaque at Berlin's Kurfürstendamm
19201933
In the 1920s, began Herrmann-Neisse, in addition to writing poems and other stories also increased prose. 1920 published the autobiographical novel switch Cajetan man. Most of the texts of this era are still strongly influenced by expressionism. The encounter with the short story collection (1925) was marked a turning point from the New Objectivity. During this time he also began to appear regularly in cabarets, where he sang mostly his own texts, thereby including contacts revealed to Claire Waldoff and Alfred Polgar. In 1927 he was awarded the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize.
Herrmann-Neisse, was one of Berlin's most famous writers of the time - his texts, as well as because of his conspicuous figure. Many artists, including his friend, George Grosz, portrayed him in those years.
19331941
Shortly after the Reichstag fire of 1933 Herrmann-Neisse first fled to Switzerland, then in the Netherlands, France and finally to London, where he settled in September 1933. In exile, he was part of the exile PEN, which he founded, together with Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Toller, and Rudolf Oldenbourg end of 1933. In England, he remained largely isolated. Although he applied for British citizenship, but without success.
Even in exile he wrote much, including poems, which are counted among his best, but there were few opportunities for publication. In exile in London was created in 1940 his poem Litany of bitterness: "Bitter is to eat the bread of strangers, nor the bitter bread of charity, and the neighbor to be a burden. My bessres years, I can not forget, but now they are dead, and drinking is the last wine.
In April 1941 he died in London of a heart attack and was interred in the Marylebone Cemetery, London.
The book Last Poems was published posthumously by his wife, Leni, who committed suicide shortly after the war. Like many writers of the time fell Max Herrmann-Neisse quickly forgotten. His works were published until the 1980s, gradually rediscovered and new.
