Born in F rth he was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers Because his father was reluctant to support his literary ambitions he began a short lived apprenticeship with a businessman in Vienna after graduation. He completed his military service in Nuremberg Afterward he stayed in southern Germany and in Switzerland In 1894 he moved to Munich Here he worked as a secretary and later as a copy editor at the paper Simplicissimus Around this time he also became acquainted with other writers Rainer Maria Rilke Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Thomas Mann. Born in F rth he was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers Because his father was reluctant to support his literary ambitions he began a short lived apprenticeship with a businessman in Vienna after graduation. He completed his military service in Nuremberg Afterward he stayed in southern Germany and in Switzerland In 1894 he moved to Munich Here he worked as a secretary and later as a copy editor at the paper Simplicissimus Around this time he also became acquainted with other writers Rainer Maria Rilke Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Thomas Mann. In 1896 he released his first novel Melusine Interestingly his last name Wassermann means water man in German a Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European legends and folklore a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers. In 1926 he was elected to the Prussian Academy of Art He resigned in 1933 narrowly avoiding an expulsion by the Nazis In the same year his books were banned in Germany owing to his Jewish ancestry. Wassermann s work includes poetry essays novels and short stories His most important works are considered the novel Der Fall Maurizius 1928 and the autobiography My Life as German and Jew Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude 1921 in which he discussed the tense relationship between his German and Jewish identities site_link Il sedicenne Etzel von Andergast scopre l errore giudiziario concernente un certo Leonhardt Maurizius accusato di uxoricidio in cui suo padre Procuratore generale incorse diciotto anni prima Mentre l accusato sconta in prigione la sua pena il giovane cerca di ottenere una revisione del processo Con lo scopo neppure troppo velato di sondare l animo umano nelle sue sfaccettature pi recondite Wassermann sviluppa una vasta e profonda riflessione sulla giustizia il libero arbitrio e sulla volont di perseguire sempre e comunque la verit Il caso Mauritius Italian Edition

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Jakob Wassermann 1873 1934 was a German writer and novelist of Jewish descent, In 18 Jakob Wassermann 1873 1934 was a German writer and novelist of Jewish descent. From 1898 he was a theater critic in Vienna In 1901 he married Julie Speyer whom he divorced in 1915 Three years later he was married again to Marta Karlweis: After 1906 he lived alternatively in Vienna or at Altaussee in der Steiermark where he died in 1934 after a severe illness