Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Ödön von Horváth
Born: December 9, 1901
Died: June 1, 1938 (aged 36)
Bio: Edmund Josef von Horváth was a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist. He preferred the Hungarian version of his first name and published as Ödön von Horváth.
Known for:
- Jugend ohne Gott (1937)
- Ein Kind unserer Zeit (1938)
- Youth Without God
- The Eternal Philistine
- Tales from the Vienna Woods and Other Plays







