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Hermann was born in the city of Neisse in Silesia in to the family of an innkeeper. Since childhood, he suffered dwarfism. From 1905 to 1909 he studied literature at the Universities of Munich and Breslau, but did not complete the course, deciding to become a freelance writer. In 1911, his first
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Finchley Cemetery in London. His last poems were posthumously published by his wife Leni, who in 1960 committed suicide. Like many writers of the time, Max Herrmann-Neisse was quickly forgotten. It was not until the late 1970s
89:. In 1916 he lost his parents. In 1917, he married his girlfriend Leni Gebek and moved to Berlin. During this time, he actively communicated with Berlin writers belonging to socialist and anarchist circles. At the same time, he adds the name of his hometown of Neisse to his surname.
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in Exile in London, but found no support and remained practically isolated. He was deprived of German citizenship by the Nazis, and his works were not translated into
English, despite repeated requests. The poems of this period of his work became classics of German émigré poetry.
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