1. Hermann Robert Richard Eugen Kasack was a German writer.
11 Facts About Hermann Kasack
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Hermann Kasack is best known for his novel Die Stadt hinter dem Strom.
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Hermann Kasack published radio plays under the pen names Hermann Wilhelm and Hermann Merten.
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Hermann Kasack was born in Potsdam as the only child of a doctor, he studied from 1914 to 1920 national economics and history of literature at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.
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Hermann Kasack started working as a literary editor in 1920 in the publishing house Gustav-Kiepenheuer-Verlag in Potsdam, where he edited the complete works of Friedrich Holderlin.
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Hermann Kasack was director at the S Fischer Verlag until 1927.
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In 1948, Hermann Kasack was a founding member of the German PEN center.
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Hermann Kasack was from 1953 to 1963 the president of the Deutsche Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung.
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Hermann Kasack wrote a libretto for an opera Die Stadt hinter dem Strom, which was composed by Hans Vogt and premiered at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 1955 as part of the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden.
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Hermann Kasack died on 10 January 1966 in his home in Stuttgart.
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Hermann Kasack's son Wolfgang Kasack was a German Slavist.