!!!Weiß, Ernst

Weiss, Ernst, b. Brno, Czech Republic (then Bruenn), Aug. 28, 
1884, d. Paris (France, suicide), June 14, 1940. Narrative 
writer, dramatist, essayist and translator. Studied surgery in Berne 
and Berlin, from 1911 in Vienna, then ship's surgeon of the Austrian 
Lloyd; friendship with F.  Kafka, during World War I military 
physician, 1920-1933 free-lance writer in Berlin, exile in Paris1934, 
committed suicide in 1940 upon invasion by German troops. His early 
novels are marked by expressionist emotionalism ("Die Galeere", 1913; 
"Tiere in Ketten", 1918); later turned to  New Objectivity ("Der Fall 
Vukobrankovics", 1924) and explored the origins of National Socialism 
("Der Gefaengnisarzt oder Die Vaterlosen", 1934). His most successful 
book was the novel about Hitler "Der Augenzeuge" (1963) published 
posthumously.

!Further works
Poems, novels, narratives, dramas, essays. Edition: 
Gesammelte Werke, 16 vols., publ. by P. Engel and V. Michels, 
1982.

!Literature
P. Engel (ed.), E. W., 1982; F. Haas, Der Dichter von 
der traurigen Gestalt. Zu Leben und Werk von E. W., 1986; R. 
Mielke, Das Boese als Krankheit. Entwurf einer neuen Ethik im Werk von 
E. W., 1986; M. Pazi, E. W., 1993.


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