Rheinhardt, Emil Alphons#

Reinhardt, Emil Alphons, b. Vienna, April 4, 1889, d. concentration camp Dachau, Feb. 25, 1945, poet, narrative writer, translator. Vienna expressionist, member of the "Akademie Verband fuer Literatur und Musik", 1918 editor of the periodical "Daimon", 1920-1924 reader for "3-Masken" publishers in Munich; then lived in Italy and France. After the Anschluss founded together with F. Werfel, R. Musil and B. Walter the "Liga fuer das geistige Oesterrerich" in Paris; arrested by the Gestapo in April 1943. In his poems he followed the pictorial language of the symbolism, later wrote biographies ("Josephine", 1932).

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