Talk:Ödön von Horváth

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Donaldwoo 19:04, 7 January 2006 (UTC)some information was modified and added by Donald Woo (donald_woo@excite.com). The year of birth and precise location was corrected and additional info on Horvath's death were added.

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Extraordinary claims one of the most important 20th century writers in German -- says who? Because he wrote "Tales from the Vienna Woods," which has been adapted into English? There are many, many great 20th Century German-language Dichter who are far more important than Horvath. (Here are two: Hesse and Kafka. Okay, two more: Grass and Brecht. And these are only the ones famous to Americans--just scratching the surface here.) ennobled, as indicated by h in his surname ZOMGWTFBBQ? The "von" indicates the family has been ennobled. What rot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.180.27.232 (talk) 21:40, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

one of the most important seems to be correct, but it covers of course a rather wide area. Of course, other than Hesse, Kafka, Grass, Brecht, you might also take Musil (!!), Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Alfred Döblin, Joseph Roth, Heimito von Doderer, just off the top of my head. Others are rather important too, such as Ernst Jünger, Wolfgang Kempowski, Wolfgang Koeppen (though he is less known), Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch, Stefan Zweig, Lion Feuchtwanger. I'd also mention authors chiefly known for their children's stories such as Erich Kästner (though that was only a part of his oeuvre), Michael Ende and, perhaps, Otfried Preußler (though I may be not entirely neutral w.r.t. the latter). In any case, we may list Ö. v. Horvath in their number too.--2001:A61:2089:D01:CB0:94B1:3164:32CC (talk) 16:44, 25 August 2017 (UTC)