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The Expressionist poet and playwright Walter Hasenclever was born in Aachen in 1890. After studies at universities in Oxford, Lausanne, and Leipzig, his literary carer started with the publication of his poems in 1910, followed by his first successful Expressionist drama, “Der Sohn” in 1914. In 1917 he was presented with the Kleist Prize for his adaptation of Sophocles' “Antigone”. Hasenclever escaped Nazism by moving to Nice, France in 1934, but at the beginning of the war, he was interned as an enemy alien in Camp des Milles, where he committed suicide in 1940.

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Walter Hasenclever, cir1919?, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2395.