Jakob van Hoddis (1887 - 1942)

Jakob van Hoddis (May – 1942) was the pen name of a German-Jewish expressionist poet Hans Davidsohn. His most famous poem Weltende (End of the world) is generally regarded as the preliminary Expressionist poem which inspired many other poets to write in a similarly grotesque style; he is also seen as perhaps the only German predecessor of surrealism.