Ernst Toller

Ernst Toller was a German leftwing playwright, best known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the shortlived Bavarian Soviet Republic, and was imprisoned for five years for his actions. He wrote several plays and poetry during that period, which gained him international renown. They were performed in London and New York as well as Berlin. In 2000, several of his plays were published in an English translation.

Toller was born in 1893 into a Jewish family in Samotschin , Province of Posen, Prussia . He had a sister and brother. They grew up speaking Yiddish and German, and he later became fluent in English.

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