(1893-12-01)1 December 1893 Samotschin, Posen, Germany
Died
22 May 1939(1939-05-22) (aged 45) New York City, US
Ernst Toller during his imprisonment in the Niederschönenfeld fortress (early 1920s)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army. He was imprisoned for five years for his part in the armed resistance by the Bavarian Soviet Republic to the central government in Berlin. While in prison Toller wrote several plays that gained him international renown. They were performed in London and New York City as well as in Berlin.
In 1933 Toller was exiled from Germany after the Nazis came to power. He did a lecture tour in 1936–1937 in the United States and Canada, settling in California for a while before going to New York. He joined other exiles there. He died by suicide in May 1939.
In 2000, several of his plays were published in an English translation. The most recent comprehensive biography of Toller is by Robert Ellis, "Ernst Toller and German Society. Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics" Fairleigh Dickison University Press, 2013.
Toller is by Robert Ellis, "ErnstToller and German Society. Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics" Fairleigh Dickison University Press, 2013. Toller was...
revolution in Hungary, declared a Soviet Republic, with ErnstToller as chief of state. Toller called on the nonexistent "Bavarian Red Army" to support...
attraction. Toller, a former military chaplain, is struggling with alcoholism and the death of his son Joseph, who was killed in the Iraq War. Toller seeks...
by suicide, for example: Walter Hasenclever, Ernst Weiss, Carl Einstein, Walter Benjamin, ErnstToller, and Stefan Zweig. Where they burn books, they...
of ErnstToller and Ernst Niekisch. Toller claims that Lipp was appointed when his abilities were still unknown, while Niekisch asserts that Toller proposed...
influence on early 20th-century German theatre, of which Georg Kaiser and ErnstToller were the most famous playwrights. Other notable Expressionist dramatists...
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in Munich, which was quickly joined by several other Bavarian cities, ErnstToller was appointed as head of state. The USPD members of Hoffman's cabinet...
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final collapse was precipitated by hearing the news that the playwright ErnstToller had hanged himself in New York. Roth died from pneumonia on 27 May 1939...
on 5 July 1919. ErnstToller, imprisoned, 1919–1924. Adolf Hitler, imprisoned for a month in 1922 for assaulting Otto Ballerstedt. Ernst Röhm was imprisoned...
well as the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. He became friends with ErnstToller and mourned the deaths of Rosa Luxemburg, Kurt Eisner, and Karl Liebknecht...
published a newspaper, Arbeiterpost. In 1920, four delegates from the USPD (Ernst Däumig, Arthur Crispien, Walter Stoecker and Wilhelm Dittmann) attended...
Miles. The film is based on the play of the same title by German author ErnstToller who had lived as an emigrant in the United States until his suicide in...
Diederichs and brought together intellectuals, including Theodor Heuss, ErnstToller, and Werner Sombart. Weber's presence elevated his profile in Germany...
list of thirty-three names are the Jewish authors Lion Feuchtwanger, ErnstToller and Kurt Tucholsky. 25 August – The Haavara Agreement is signed between...
Stories and Other Writings), included text, translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser, that had been deleted by earlier publishers. Known as "Definitive...
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