Salomo Friedlaender was a German-Jewish philosopher, poet, satirist and author of grotesque and fantastic literature.
10 Facts About Salomo Friedlaender
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Salomo Friedlaender published his literary work under the pseudonym Mynona, which is the German word for "anonymous" spelled backward.
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Salomo Friedlaender is known for his philosophical ideas on dualism drawing on Immanuel Kant, and his avant garde poetry and fiction.
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Between 1894 and 1902, Friedlaender studied medicine, philosophy, German literature, archaeology, and art history in Munich, Berlin, and Jena.
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Salomo Friedlaender wrote his dissertation on Arthur Schopenhauer and Kant.
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Salomo Friedlaender approached the contemporary problems of his day through the lens of Kantian philosophy, in the footsteps of his teacher, the neo-Kantian Ernst Marcus.
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In 1906, Salomo Friedlaender moved to Berlin and began to publish literary writing under the pseudonym Mynona.
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Salomo Friedlaender wrote several novels and countless poems and grotesques which were widely published in Expressionist periodicals such as Der Sturm and Die Aktion.
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Salomo Friedlaender was part of the Berlin expressionist circle of Herwarth Walden, Else Lasker-Schueler, and Samuel Lublinski and an attraction at their public readings.
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Salomo Friedlaender was refused assistance to emigrate to the United States during World War II.