Bruno Frank

Bruno Frank ( born June 13, 1887 in Stuttgart, † June 20, 1945 in Beverly Hills ) was a German writer.

Life

Bruno Frank - son of a banker - studied law and philosophy in Tübingen, Munich, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. He was in Tübingen Dr. phil. doctorate. During the First World War he was a soldier, after which he was working freelance. He maintained close friendships with Lion Feuchtwanger and Klaus Mann.

In an interview with the twenty -year-old Klaus Mann Frank answered the question of the stylistic and artistic ideal which he aspires, as follows: " Extreme clarity, this seems to me the most beautiful of all. A minimum of verbosity - the most complicated to say in simple words. Actually, you should write like Tacitus. "

Frank went one day after the Reichstag fire on 28 February 1933, emigrated to Austria, then to Switzerland, then to France and England. In exile he wrote his second major historical novel Cervantes (1934 ) by Trenck ( 1926). Was published in 1937 the novel The passport, which deals with the situation in Germany during the reign of National Socialism.

Frank sympathized with the efforts of Klaus Mann, a collection of diverse forces of the exiled writer, however, was skeptical, given the increasing divisiveness between the left and the conservative camp of emigration. His only political writing was " a lie as a state principle " (1939 ); in this he lashed out Hitler's rule.

Successfully the comedy storm was in the water glass, which was filmed in 1931-1989 for the cinema or television six times, including in 1960 in Germany, directed by Josef von Báky among others with Therese Giehse and Peter Lühr (writer: Gregory of Rezzori ). Another comedy, Nina, was published in 1931. Essays and screenplays such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame come from his pen.

He lived from 1939 until his death in 1945 in the United States.

Works

Expenditure

• Selected works: fiction, poetry, plays (1957 )
• The moon clock. narratives; Ed Martin Gregor- Dellin (1979 )