Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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