Hermann Kesten
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German-Jewish novelist and editor, a leading figure of the New Objectivity literary movement. Born in Pidvolochysk (Austro-Hungarian Empire) to a Jewish merchant family, he fled Germany in 1933, worked for the Amsterdam publisher Allert de Lange helping banned and exiled writers, then emigrated to New York in 1940.
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Casanova
1952
Copernicus und seine Welt
1948
Der Gerechte
1934
Der Scharlatan
1932
Dichter im Café
1959
Die fremden Götter
1949
Die Kinder von Gernika
1939
Die Zwillinge von Nürnberg
1947
Ein ausschweifender Mensch
1929
Ein Sohn des Glücks
1955
Ferdinand und Isabella
1936
Glückliche Menschen
1931
Josef sucht die Freiheit
1927
König Philipp II.
1938
Meine Freunde die Poeten
1953
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