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20: 306: 88:(Legation Counselor) at the new Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin. In the same year he married Margarete Weiss (born Stransky). Later he returned to Prague and became the Ministerial Commissioner at the Foreign Affairs ministry. While there, he began to associate with a literary circle that included 137:, who became a godfather to Ungar's son Tom (born Thomas Michael Ungar). According to a 2012 obituary of Tom (who had changed his name to Unwin), his father "wrote about sex and psychosis in a manner that shocked the establishment". 125:
was also a great success but was not performed in Berlin until shortly after his death. These plays have been printed and extensively reviewed. His novels were influenced by
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until 1911, followed by legal and philosophical studies in Munich and Prague. After service in World War I, where he sustained serious injuries on the
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His writing was becoming successful, so he quit the diplomatic service in 1929, but died not long after, aged only thirty-six, during an
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Ungar's father, Emil, was a cider maker who served as Mayor of Boskovice. After graduating from the public schools in
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His wife and two sons fled to the UK in 1939. His brother and parents were murdered in
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in 1942, but his sister was able to escape and went to Tel-Aviv.
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At first, he worked as a lawyer and director of the theater in
62:, Hermann Ungar went to Berlin, where he took courses in 226:
Jewish Prague: Gloses on history and Kultur--a guidebook
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was a great success in Berlin in 1928. His second play
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Boskovice
Prague
Czech-Jewish
German language
Czechoslovakia
Brno
Oriental Studies
Galician Front
Cheb
Legationsrat
de
Franz Kafka
Max Brod
Ernst Weiß
appendectomy
Auschwitz
expressionism
psychoanalysis
Thomas Mann
"The life of Hermann Ungar 1893 – 1929"
"Obituary of Tom Unwin"
"Tom Unwin obituary"
Works by Hermann Ungar
LibriVox
Hermann Ungar at Twisted Spoon Press
Categories
1893 births
1929 deaths
Czech male writers

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