Odon von Horvarth in History

Odon Horvarth of home and childhood, February 26, 1901 she married the diplomat Dr. Edmund Josef Maria Horvath and Hermione Prehnal. On 9 December of that year their first son is named Joseph Edmund, Odon, Fiume - born in Croatia - Rijeka today. A year later the family moved to Belgrade, then where on 6
July 1903 Ödön born brother Lajos. In 1908 the family moved to Budapest. Dr. Edmund Horváth is used here as a judge at the Royal Court and as a specialist Administrative Hungary Rapporteur of the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Trade to Serbia.

Odon receives his first lessons in Hungarian by a tutor. 1909, Dr. Horváth Edmund raised to the nobility, who in Hungarian in the "H"behind the "T"to see Horváth name. At the same time, he moved to Munich, where his family continues with the exception of Odon. His eldest son is in Budapest and attended the "Rákóczianum", an archbishop boarding, which receives intensive religious education. Four years later, in 1913, Odon is brought by their parents to Munich, where he first visited the third grade of elementary school and then in high school changes. About his school days, he says: During my school years I moved four times the language of instruction and attended almost all classes in a different city. The result was that he was not quite mastered the language.

When I first came to Germany I could not read a newspaper, because I knew nothing of Gothic letters, though my mother tongue is German. Just last fourteen years, wrote the German phrase first. How to be admitted in 1916 to redraw the Horváth. This time, Bratislava, where Ödön visited the College. From this period date the earliest evidence of literary experiments in form of poems, including Luci in Macbeth. A thumbnail history of Edvon Horváth is received. In January 1918, Dr. Edmund Horváth in Budapest will be appointed. There Ödön joins a youth group - known as the Galilean group - who read national enthusiasm-revolutionary works. The generation of these young people feel he says: We, who were the great moment in the awkward age, were not very popular.

The fact that our parents were in the field, or expressed that they were torn to pieces or maimed enlargement, concluded that public opinion, we would be clown war criminals. Has allowed us to hang all of us, we would have our puberty referee fell into the war .[...] collapsed as adults, which remained intact. Nothing is broken, because we have only noted .. This quote shows that Horvath with the spirit of this time can not cope. His generation is the shadow of "war heroes" who are their parents. In 1919 the family left Hungary Horváth and Odo comes into the care of an uncle in Vienna. There he became a private school A-levels.

On October 15, 1919, he enrolled at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, where his parents live. The first literary book early Horváth, "The Book of Dances, " created in 1920 at the suggestion of the composer Siegfried Kellenberger, who met in Munich. This volume contains 1922 500 copies. In Munich, therefore, begins Horváth for the intensive period of writing in the first place. Also known as the period of the "works of removal" most of this period is destroyed immediately or later distanced himself from him.

Horváth beginnings are rooted in expressionism: he feels that his time is suspended and tried to distance himself from it. Ödön 1924 with his brother Lajos made ​​several weeks in Paris - travel, then decided to move to Berlin. In addition to the material offered in Berlin this young writer and the material for his work. According to Horváth meetings in 1927 in the office of the German League for Human Rights, which he himself belonged, in the literature of material on the lynching of Black Reichswehr. The next test of a lieutenant of incitement to lynching reflected in its history, "Sladek or black army" down. This drama is a man who commits Reichswehr in his Nazi face a murder.

Horváth but also makes social and political conditions that prevailed during this period, significantly, so it is even responsible for the murder. This provoked fits of indignation from the Nazis. In 1928, he worked in the drama - as most of his works - and give the title of "Sladek, the black man Reichswehr. " On January 4, 1929 for the premiere of "mountain train", however, a new version of revolt "of the Coast 3018. The " mountain train "is a real accident in the cable car to the Zugspitze.

The theme of the play is the struggle between capital and labor. It is very common in all the events processed real Horváth or persons who have known the fact in their works. A week after its premiere at the Ullstein publishing house offers Odon von Horváth a contract and have the opportunity to live as a freelance writer. Horváth was popular in 1931 for the most successful and wealthy Horváth, at least in outward glory years. So this year also saw the premiere of his place to this day the most effective and most successful play, "Tales from the Vienna Woods. " On 24.

October Horváth received the Kleist Prize at the suggestion of Carl Zucker. The half-Jew and Horváth Zucker, who had practiced in the works "Sladek, Black Reichswehr man" and "Italian Night" criticism of the Nazis moved, so more to the wrath of the Nazis. Horváth it was in June, when he was questioned as a witness in a trial match, was physically assaulted by them. 

Horváth 1932 provides the pieces "Kasimir and Karoline" and "faith, hope, love, "he concluded. In "Kasimir and Karoline"is an unemployed truck driver and a small team in the middle. In 118 miniature scenes are revealed through detailed portraits around the world moving speech of hatred and selfishness, the better off cold."Faith, hope, love", is once again a real case: a poor girl - Elisabeth-tried in his own life for his body to a Department of Anatomy sell to ensure their survival. Elizabeth is actually a decent girl, who is advised by the Company on the straight and narrow. Horváth himself says that "shows the titanic struggle between the individual and society ..." With this piece I wanted.

The author is currently addressing issues of the chronicler of the Weimar Republic. He puts the political and the economic burden of their work in the general consciousness. Its popularity continues to grow significantly in an interview with the Bavarian Radio and various readings. Horváth at the time of the 3 rd Empire After Hitler took power on January 30, 1933 Horváth pieces are sold on the German stage.

SA, the troops search home of parents in Murnau. Then leave Odon von Horváth go first to Germany and Salzburg, and then to Vienna. From Vienna, you have to make a trip to Budapest, to keep the Hungarian nationality. When you return to this, he married the singer Maria Elsner. But a year later, in 1934, can be divorced from it. This year will be in Austria to get to play in theaters, after he has against the fascist Wiener Zeitung "12-clock leaves" prosecuted for defamation.

That same year, leaving Horváth Vienna and moved to Berlin, where it joins with the help of a guarantor of the Reich Association of German writers. Also attempted by letter to the National and arrangements to avoid public criticism of them. The aim of this opportunistic attitude is the withdrawal of the ban on the performance of the works of Horváth. The Nazis show, however, unimpressed, his works are prohibited. The impressions have been the author of this period can be found later in the novel "Youth Without God"again.

On 13 December in Zurich, the world premiere of the Posse "return, "he wrote in 1933 in place. Horváth good use of this opportunity to go to actress Vera Liessem Germany. From that moment, Odon almost no fixed abode, but live in hostels and cheap hotels, writes in bars. Vienna, Salzburg, and above all in the Salzkammergut Henn people he served until the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany as a place to stay. The belief in a visit with his parents in Possenhofen is told that his residence permit had been revoked and had to leave Germany within 24 hours. 1937, Horváth public away from the majority of plays he has written ("Oh, it was only a test") What seems at first sight rather incomprehensible, Horváth was summarized experiences to explain with fascism: It concludes that man is the root of all evil.

Previously Horváth was the point of view (similar to B. Brecht) that people only by the conditions in which they live, has become bad. But he was always away, unlike Brecht, writing educational pieces that are calling for a change of circumstances. The reason was simply that Horvath had a fatalistic view of the world: He does not believe that society can change. Horváth goal was and remains at the time of his work at the end of the disappointment and the unmasking of consciousness, but no change. This year, he wrote comedies so few and finished his novel "Youth Without God,"which is a great success and was translated into many languages​​.

Horváth generally begins at this time increasingly turn to prose ("Youth Without God, " "A child of our time") as for his plays, at least in Germany there are more stages. In his senior year, 1938, to prevent depression and dissatisfaction in the arts, leading to a profound identity crisis, as well as the implementation of the plans. Reinforces this crisis is exacerbated by financial worries. Horváth death in March, German troops entered in Vienna, Austria is connected to Germany.

Horvath has left Austria and emigrated to the following stations: three weeks in Budapest, five weeks Teplitz-Schönau (Czech), amid a few days in Prague, a short stay in Milan, Zurich, then two weeks, stop for two hours Brussels, a week and finally Amsterdam - 28 May - who arrives in Paris.Odon von Horváth dies an unnatural death: In June 1938, was beaten on the Champs Elysees in a storm by a fallen branch that was struck by lightning. In June 1938, seventh in Odon von Horvath in the cemetery in northern Paris Saint-Ouien is buried. Numerous writers, refugees and foreigners to give their last respects.