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Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939)
Ernst Toller (born December 1, 1893 in Samotschin , Posen Province ; died May 22, 1939 in New York City , New York ) was a German writer and playwright , politician and left-wing socialist revolutionary. As a temporary chairman of the Bavarian USPD and protagonist of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic , he was arrested after the crackdown in June 1919 and a month later to five years imprisonment convicted. He narrowly escaped the death penalty. During his imprisonment and even more afterwards, he became known as one of the leading representatives of literary expressionism in the Weimar Republic , especially with his dramas .
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