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Leonhard Frank
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4 September 1882 - 18 August 1961
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Frank (Frank) Leonhard (4.9.1882, Würzburg, - 18.8.1961, Munich), German writer. The carpenter's son. Persecuted for anti-war actions, he was forced to emigrate to Switzerland in 1915. In November 1918 he returned to Germany and was a member of the Revolutionary Council in Munich. Since 1933 in emigration (France, Great Britain, USA); since 1950 he lived in Munich (Germany). Since 1957 honorary doctor of the Humboldt University (Berlin, GDR). Literary success came to F. with the first novel “Gang
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Frank (Frank) Leonhard (4.9.1882, Würzburg, - 18.8.1961, Munich), German writer. The carpenter's son. Persecuted for anti-war actions, he was forced to emigrate to Switzerland in 1915. In November 1918 he returned to Germany and was a member of the Revolutionary Council in Munich. Since 1933 in emigration (France, Great Britain, USA); since 1950 he lived in Munich (Germany). Since 1957 honorary doctor of the Humboldt University (Berlin, GDR). Literary success came to F. with the first novel “Gang of Robbers” (1914, Russian translation, 1925 under the title “Robbers”, where the German burgherism is humorously debunked. Humanistic and anti-war pathos is defined by the collection of short stories The Man is Good (1917, Russian translation, 1923). F.’s realistic work was influenced by left-wing expressionism (the novel In the Last Car, 1925; Russian translation, 1927; the novel Oxenfurt Men’s Quartet, 1927; Russian translation, 1928). In the autobiographical novel "Left, where the heart" (1952, Russian translation 1956) expressed F.'s sympathy for socialism. In 1955 he came to the USSR. National Prize of the GDR (1955).