Odon Von Horvath - Böcker

Der selbsternannte Weltbürger Ödön von Horváth ist nicht nur ein Chronist seiner Zeit, sondern auch eine wichtige Stimme gegen den Faschismus und verfolgt in seinen Werken das Ziel der »Demaskierung des Bewußtseins«. Er tritt als Gesellschafts- un...

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In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Literaturarchiv der Ísterreichischen Nationalbibliothek, an dem zur Zeit die neue historisch-kritische Ausgabe entsteht, erscheinen Horvßths wichtigste Werke jetzt in der 'Universal-Bibliothek' - in einer anhand der Origi...

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Set in the socially and economically oppressed Vienna of the early thirties, this play is the story of a young girl's struggle to survive in the city, a victim of forces she does not comprehend. As the play opens, she is trying to sell her body to...

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'Don't spoil her, Oskar, or you'll pay dear for it. You wouldn't believe what I had to put up with in my marriage. Not because madam, my wife, God bless her, was a vicious-tongued cow, but because I was too decent. Never lose your authority! Keep ...

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It's another normal day at a small-town station, where a handful of passengers are waiting for the stopping train. Thomas Hudetz, the well-liked station master, is momentarily distracted by a young woman. Seconds later eighteen people are dead. St...

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Set in the socially and economically oppressed Vienna of the early thirties, this play is the story of a young girl's struggle to survive in the city, a victim of forces she does not comprehend. As the play opens, she is trying to sell her body to...

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The old man started to talk about the trial. He blamed everyone involved, including the teacher, i.e. me. In his view the root cause of the problem was that everybody involved - teachers, parents, boys - behaved as if God no longer existed. A scho...

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Written in exile, Horvath's masterwork is a darkly disturbing evocation of life in fascist Germany.

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Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years.   This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century&rsquo...

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Jetzt genieÿen Sie die kompletten Werke von ÿdön von Horváth auf Ihrem E-Reader. Diese enorme Sammlung umfasst auch spezielle Bonustexte. (Version 1) Product Description Merkmale: * die vollstÿndige Romane, mit Inhaltsverzeichnissen * kurze E...

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This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally funny look at the human comedy on the eve of Europe's decent into Fascism. It tells the tale of a failed used car salesman who wants to live the high...

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