… The author: Bernhard Blume, born in Germany in 1901, was a successful playwright in the twenties and early thirties whose work was compared to that of his contemporary Bertolt Brecht. Denied access to the stage by the Nazis in 1933, he emigrated in 1936 with his Jewish wife to the United States where he taught German literature. Blume held, among other positions, the prestigious chair of the Kuno Francke Professorship of German Art and Culture at Harvard. He was a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and was awarded the Gold Goethe Medal in 1964. Among his many publications are penetrating studies of Goethe, Thomas Mann, and Rilke.
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