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Hermann Broch (German:; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).
May 26, 2024 · Hermann Broch (born Nov. 1, 1886, Vienna, Austria—died May 30, 1951, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) was an Austrian writer who achieved international recognition for his multidimensional novels, in which he used innovative literary techniques to present a wide range of human experience.
Hermann Broch war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller. Mit der Romantrilogie Die Schlafwandler zum Zerfall der Werte und der Persönlichkeit verfasste er Anfang der 1930er-Jahre eines der wichtigsten Werke des europäischen modernen Romans. In der Emigration setzte sich Broch mit politischen Themen wie Menschenrechten, Totalitarismus und ...
About Hermann Broch: Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory in Teesdorf, though he maint...
Sep 20, 2020 · Hermann Broch must surely be counted among such other major German novelists of the twentieth century as Franz Kafka, Mann, Robert Musil, Heinrich Böll, and Günter Grass, alongside such other creative artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Mahler, Egon Schiele, and Arnold Schönberg—in terms of both the ...
Oct 24, 2017 · Much like Virgil in the pages of Hermann Broch’s book, we need to decide almost daily what we stand up for and when—and what price we are willing to pay for our convictions.
Hermann Broch was born in November 1886 in Vienna. His father was a textile wholesaler and tried to push his son into business. Broch studied textile engineering, travelled to the United States to learn about cotton production and went to work in his father’s factory.
