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Hermann Broch (German:; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).
Oct 24, 2017 · The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch dreaded the rise of Hitler, and with good reason. Within 24 hours of the Nazis’ march into Vienna in March 1938, Broch was placed under arrest.
As it was, Hermann Broch was to leave behind on his death in 1951 not only a substantial literary oeuvre, including (alongside Die Schlafwandler) the extraordinary lyrical novel Der Tod des Vergil (1945; The Death of Virgil, 1945), but also a corpus of philosophical, psychological, and political writings that, like the novels, were the product of a lifelong project: the quest to establish a ...
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that ...
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Broch was arrested by the Nazis on the day of the German annexation of Austria and detained briefly in 1938. Inspired by the visions of impending death in the prison in Altaussee, he wrote a few elegies, which became the core of Der Tod des Vergil. With the help of James Joyce and other writers, Broch was allowed to emigrate from Nazi Austria.
Nov 1, 2022 · Among these was Hermann Broch, born in 1886 to a wealthy Jewish family. Broch converted to Catholicism in 1909, though he retained a deep sense of Jewish identity throughout his life, particularly during and after World War II, where he was deeply affected by his mother’s death in Theresienstadt, which he only learned about in 1944, two years after she died.
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BROCH, Hermann 1886-1951. PERSONAL: Born November 1, 1886, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria); died of a heart attack May 30, 1951, in New Haven, CT; married Franziska von Rothermann, December 11, 1909; children: Hermann Friedrich Maria. Education: Studied textile engineering at Mulhausen (now Mulhouse, France) and in Alsace; attended ...
