Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor.
14 Facts About Oskar Panizza
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Oskar Panizza is best known for his provocative tragicomedy, Das Liebeskonzil, for which he served a one-year prison sentence after being convicted in Munich in 1895 on 93 counts of blasphemy.
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The scandal-ridden Panizza suffered more than any other German author under the repressive censorship imposed during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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Oskar Panizza was born in Bad Kissingen, northern Bavaria, to Karl and Mathilde Oskar Panizza, nee Speeth.
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Religious friction between Oskar Panizza's parents began even before their marriage.
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When Oskar Panizza was two years old, his Catholic father died of typhoid.
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Mathilde Oskar Panizza was the proprietor of the Hotel Russischer Hof, purchased in 1850, a renowned establishment that catered to Russian nobility and other distinguished guests in the popular spa town.
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Oskar Panizza became an avid member of the Gesellschaft fur modernes Leben, which Conrad founded in 1890 together with Detlev von Liliencron, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Julius Schaumberger, Hanns von Gumppenberger and Georg Schaumberg.
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One of Oskar Panizza's notable presentations was a lecture in 1891 titled Genie und Wahnsinn, which drew heavily on the work of Cesare Lombroso.
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Oskar Panizza's orthography became more deviant, as his spelling grew progressively more phonetic.
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The six years Oskar Panizza spent in Paris were not nearly as productive as the preceding ones.
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In 1905 Oskar Panizza was admitted to Herzogshohe, an asylum for wealthy heart and circulatory patients on the outskirts of Bayreuth.
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Oskar Panizza spent the last sixteen years of his life in this institution, where he died of a stroke in 1921.
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Oskar Panizza is buried in an unmarked grave in the Bayreuth municipal cemetery.