Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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







