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[[File:Hermann Ungar, foto před rokem 1929 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Hermann Ungar (before 1929)]]<br />
[[File:Memorial Hermann Ungar.JPG|thumb|Memorial plaque on his birth house in [[Boskovice]]]]<br />
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'''Hermann Ungar''' (April 20, 1893 in [[Boskovice]] – October 28, 1929 in [[Prague]]) was a [[Czech-Jewish]]<ref>Mike Mitchell (intro.), in Hermann Ungar, ''The class'', Dedalus (2004), p. 5.</ref><ref>Ctibor Rybár, ''Jewish Prague: Gloses on history and Kultur--a guidebook'', TV Spektrum in cooperation with Akropolis Publishers (1991), p. 214.</ref> writer (in the [[German language]]) and an officer in [[Czechoslovakia]]'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Ungar's father, Emil, was a cider maker who served as Mayor of Boskovice. After graduating from the public schools in [[Brno]], Hermann Ungar went to Berlin, where he took courses in [[Oriental Studies]] 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 [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galician Front]], he passed the state examination and received his degree in 1918.<br />
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At first, he worked as a lawyer and director of the theater in [[Cheb]], where he also wrote plays. In 1922, he became the {{ill|Legationsrat|de}} (Legation Counselor) at the new Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin. In the same year he married Margarete Weiss (born Stransky).<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://hermannungar.com/downloads/ungar_family.pdf | title=The life of Hermann Ungar 1893 – 1929 | first=Vicky | last=Unwin | website=hermannungar.com}}</ref> 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 [[Franz Kafka]], [[Max Brod]] and [[Ernst Weiß]].<br />
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His writing was becoming successful, so he quit the diplomatic service in 1929, but died not long after, aged only 36, during an [[appendectomy]] that had been postponed for too long.<br />
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His wife and two sons fled to the UK in 1939. His brother and parents were murdered in [[Auschwitz]] in 1942, but his sister was able to escape and went to Tel Aviv. <br />
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His play ''Der rote General'' was a great success in Berlin in 1928. His second play ''Die Gartenlaube'' 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 [[expressionism]] and [[psychoanalysis]] and were praised by [[Thomas Mann]], who became a godfather to Ungar's son, Tom (born Thomas Michael Ungar).<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9413034/Tom-Unwin.html "Obituary of Tom Unwin"], ''The Telegraph'', 19 July 2012.</ref> 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".<ref>Vicky Unwin, [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/jun/07/tom-unwin-obituary "Tom Unwin obituary"], ''The Guardian'', 7 June 2012.</ref><br />
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== Works ==<br />
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* ''Boys and Murderers'' (1920, novel)<br />
* ''The Maimed'' (1923, novel)<br />
* ''The Murder of Captain Hanika'' (1925, non-fiction)<br />
* ''The Class'' (1927, novel)<br />
* ''The Red General'' (1928, play)<br />
* ''The Arbor'' (1930, play)<br />
* ''Colbert's Journey'' (1930, short stories)<br />
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Hermann Ungar, ''Das Gesamtwerk'', Verlag Paul Zsolnay, Wien-Darmstadt, 1989, 461pp.<br />
Dieter Sudhoff, Hermann Ungar Leben-Werk-Wirkung Verlag Königshausen und Neumann Wurzburg, 1990, 700pp.<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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*[https://www.twistedspoon.com/ungar.html Hermann Ungar at Twisted Spoon Press]<br />
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