Bernard von Brentano was a German

Germany

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 writer, poet, playwright, storyteller, novelist, essayist and journalist.

Brentano was a son of the Hessian Interior and Justice Minister Otto von Brentano di Tremezzo and a brother of Clemens and Heinrich von Brentano

Heinrich von Brentano

Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo was a German conservative politician and lawyer. He served as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1955 to 1961.-Personal life:...

.

He worked since 1925 in the Berlin office of the Frankfurter Zeitung

Frankfurter Zeitung

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. In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland

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 and his family lived in Küsnacht

Küsnacht

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 in Zurich

Zürich

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. In 1949 he returned from exile back to Germany. He lived with his family in Wiesbaden.

Works

• Über den Ernst des Lebens, 1929
• Kapitalismus und schöne Literatur, 1930
• Der Beginn der Barbarei in Deutschland, 1932
• Berliner Novellen, 1934
• Theodor Chindler, 1936
• Prozess ohne Richter, 1937
• Die ewigen Gefühle, 1939
• Une Famille Allemande, 1939
• Phädra, Drama, 1939
• Tagebuch mit Büchern, 1943
• August Wilhelm Schlegel, 1944
• Goethe und Marianne von Willemer, 1945
• Franziska Scheler, 1945
• Martha und Maria, 1946
• Streifzüge, 1947
• Die Schwestern Usedom, 1948
• Sophie Charlotte und Danckelmann, 1949
• Du Land der Liebe, 1952

Literature

• Konrad Feilchenfeldt:Afterword, in: Bernard von Brentano:Three prelates. Essays. Limes, Wiesbaden 1974th (Important for the Assessment of Brentano's later work)
• Ulrike Hessler:Bernard von Brentano. A German writer without Germany. Tendencies of the novel between the Weimar Republic and in exile. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.m. e.g. 1984th (= European university studies. I. 778th series)
• German business publisher, AG (eds.), Handbook of the German Empire, Volume 1, Berlin, 1931