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LastDodo number
7197617
Area
Stamps
Title
Karl Kraus 100 years
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Year
1974
Month
04
Day
26
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Michel number
1448
Yvert number
1277
Scott number
986
Stanley Gibbons number
1701
ANK number
1470
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Gum
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Dimensions / diameter
161 x 114 mm
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Today, on his 100th birthday, Karl Kraus is just as unique in German-language literature as he was in his lifetime. Not the choice of the genre, not the means of dissemination, but the way in which the language is performed, that of the uncompromising satirist, makes him this individual phenomenon. Born in Bohemia on April 28, 1874, the family soon moved to Vienna, where Karl Kraus attended grammar school and university. Torn between writing and acting, Kraus finally decided on literature. He soon became a theater critic who was feared because of his language. Turning down an offer from the leading liberal Viennese daily newspaper "Neue Freie Presse", he founded his own newspaper. In April 1899 the first edition of the "Fackel" appeared. Under the spiritual auspices of unconditional intellectual honesty and defiant self-assertion, the "torch" appeared continuously for 37 years, regardless of financially good and bad times. With his sharp and witty style, Kraus repeatedly uncovered the lie raised by the prevailing abuse of language in politics and society and made quite a few enemies with it. His most famous play "The Last Days of Mankind" is known to a wider audience. Kraus died in Vienna at the age of 62. The brand image shows a portrait of the poet.

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