Eugen Gottlob Winkler was a German

Germany

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 writer and essayist.

He grew up in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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 and studied Germanistics, Romantic philology

Philology

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 and art history

Art history

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 at Munich

Munich

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, Paris

Paris

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, Tübingen

Tübingen

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 and Cologne

Cologne

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He wrote criticism and essays in order to earn a basic livelihood and devote himself to literary pursuits without a conventional job. Although he was jail for several days in 1933, being accused of damaging a Nazi Party placard, he continued to write for numerous newspapers including Das Deutsche Wort, the Deutsche Zeitschrift, Bücherwurm and the Neue Rundschau. In 1936, he committed suicide in Munich under still unclear circumstances.