Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938)
Author of Youth Without God
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Image credit: Photograph © ÖNB/Wien
Works by Ödön von Horváth
Gesammelte Werke : Kommentierte Werkausgabe in 14 Bänden in Kassette : Band 13 : Jugend ohne Gott (2001) 71 copies
Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek : Ödön von Horváth : Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald (2001) — Text — 31 copies
Sechsunddreißig Stunden: Die Geschichte vom Fräulein Pollinger. Roman (suhrkamp taschenbuch) (1979) 18 copies
Lesen und Üben : Ödön von Horvath : Jugend ohne Gott [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 6 copies
Die Romane. Der ewige Spießer. / Jugend ohne Gott. / Ein Kind unserer Zeit. (= Weißes Programm im 33. Jahr… (1983) 3 copies
Youth Without God (Neversink) 2 copies
Légendes de la forêt viennoise (Ödön von Horváth - mise en scène Christoph Marthaler-2007) : Les Fiches Spectacle (2016) 2 copies
[unidentified works] 2 copies
Le Jugement dernier (Ödön von Horváth - mise en scène André Engel - 2004) : Les Fiches Spectacle (2016) 2 copies
Jeugd zonder God 1 copy
Dijete našeg vremena 1 copy
Hamburger Lesehefte plus Königs Materialien : Ödön von Horváth : Jugend ohne Gott (2023) — Text — 1 copy
Historias de los Bosques de Viena; El divorcio de Fígaro (Letras Universales) (Spanish Edition) (2008) 1 copy
Der ewige Spießer 1 copy
Teatro popolare 1 copy
Zeitalter der Fische roman 1 copy
Wiener Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke : Historisch-kritische Edition. Am Literaturarchiv der Österreichischen… (2020) 1 copy
Ein Wochenendspiel 1 copy
Unvollendet ... 1 copy
Associated Works
Spectaculum Band 13: Beckett, Bond, Fleißer, Hacks, Handke, Horváth, Michelsen (1951) — Contributor — 4 copies
Die Geschichtenerzähler: Neues und Unbekanntes von Allende bis Zafón (suhrkamp taschenbuch) (2008) — Contributor — 4 copies
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- Canonical name
- Horváth, Ödön von
- Legal name
- Horváth, Edmund Josef von
- Birthdate
- 1901-12-09
- Date of death
- 1938-06-01
- Burial location
- Vienna, Austria
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Austria-Hungary
- Birthplace
- Fiume, Austria-Hungary
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Places of residence
- Belgrade, Serbia
Budapest, Hungary
Bratislava, Slovakia
Vienna, Austria
Munich, Germany
Berlin, Germany (show all 8)
Salzburg, Austria
Murnau, Germany - Occupations
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playwright - Awards and honors
- Kleist Prize (1931)
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Story wise I don't really understand the role the captain's wife plays. The religious themes were a little confusing to me eg the symbols on the soup kitchen, the nurse - purely just as a counterpart to disregard of the individual of fascist society? I'll also say the ending is a bit of a cop out to avoid dealing with the moral issue of
In general though it's a good examination of the fascist mentality eg the appeal of being a soldier and why you'd leave that and how awful both fascism and the dominant liberal capitalist order destroy the individual.
I'll just leave some good quotes to give you a feel for it
"I love my Fatherland since it has won back its honor. For now, I have my own back, too. I don’t have to beg any more. I needn’t steal. Everything’s different today – will always be different.
Next time there’s a war, we shall win it. Guaranteed!
All our leaders extol peace – but my comrades and I wink at one another. Our leaders are cunning and shrewd, they’ll get the better of the others, for they’ve mastered the art of lying like none of the rest.
Without lies, life is impossible.
And we’re getting readier every day."
"He’s another that looks away when he sees us on the march. He can’t stand us soldiers, because he hates the armament industry – as if it were the most anxious problem in the world whether an armament manufacturer should make profits or not!
If he supplies the right goods, let him. First-class cannon, munitions and the rest. For us today there’s no longer a problem there. For we have recognized that the highest thing in human life is the Fatherland. There is nothing of greater significance. All else is nonsense – or at best very near it.
When things are going well with the Fatherland, they’re going well with every one of its children. If they’re going badly, perhaps it doesn’t mean that everybody is in a bad plight, but the few exceptions can’t make money for long out of the suffering of the living body of the State.
And things only go well with the Fatherland if its name is feared, if it has its own sharp weapon.
We are its weapons. I too am part of them."
"For we no longer need a blessed eternity since we’ve learned that the individual doesn’t count. Only when he’s in line with the rest does he count for anything. For us, there is only one eternity – the life of our people. And only one divine duty – to die for the life of our people All the rest is out of date now."
"“Well, the individual doesn’t count.”
It was I who gaped now.
Doesn’t count?
Hadn’t I said that myself once? How senseless it sounded!
“We’ve got to make our business pay, and business competition is the same thing as war, my friend, and as you ought to know, you can’t win a war with gloves on!”"
"It should not be that the individual counts for nothing, even if she’s the humblest of the humble. Whoever believes that should be blotted out"… (more)