Ernst Toller - Wikipedia
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
Ernst Toller | German poet, playwright, pacifist | Britannica
Ernst Toller (born Dec. 1, 1893, Samotschin, Ger.—died May 22, 1939, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a dramatist, poet, and political activist, who was a prominent exponent of Marxism and pacifism in Germany in the 1920s. His Expressionist plays embodied his spirit of social protest.
Ernst Toller | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Toller was one of the best-known German dramatists of the 1920s. In numerous publications, he also warned against the rise of Nazism, predicting that Adolf Hitler would undo the social gains of the Weimar Republic with one stroke of the pen.
Ernst Toller - Wikiwand
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
German Jewish playwright Ernst Toller's legacy – The Forward
May 17, 2023 · The main character of Paul Schrader’s 2017 film First Reformed is a pastor named Ernst Toller, whose faith is challenged by his fears of environmental collapse.
Ernst Toller - Encyclopedia.com
May 21, 2018 · The German playwright Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was one of the best-known of the dramatists of the expressionist school. Ernst Toller was born on Dec. 1, 1893, at Samotschin near Bromberg, the son of a businessman. He studied at the …
Ernst Toller - Oxford Reference
(1893–1939) German playwright and poet. Born near Bromberg into a middle-class Jewish family, Toller was educated at the University of Grenoble. He was aware from an early age of the antisemitism that was increasing in Germany, but he welcomed the opportunity to volunteer in …
Ernst Toller - AcademiaLab
Ernst Toller When the Kiel uprising began in November 1918 and after the abdication of the last king of Bavaria, Eisner was appointed prime minister of the Free State of Bavaria by the Workers' and Soldiers' Council.
Toller, Ernst | International Encyclopedia of the First World War …
Ernst Toller was one of Germany’s best-known playwrights and a leading left-wing and pacifist intellectual during the 1920s and 1930s.
For the most complete critical bibliography of works by and about Toller see John M. Spalek's Ernst Toller and His Critics, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1968. The papers are arranged in three series and two additions: Series.