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Austrian writer and journalist (1874–1936)

Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936)^[1] was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.

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He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.^[2]

Biography

Early life

Kraus was born into the wealthy Jewish family of Jacob Kraus, a papermaker, and his wife Ernestine, née Kantor, in Jičín, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic).

The family moved to Vienna in 1877. His mother died in 1891.

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Kraus enrolled as a law student at the University of Vienna in 1892. Beginning in April of the same year, he began contributing to the paper Wiener Literaturzeitung, starting with a critique of Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers.

Around that time, he unsuccessfully tried to perform as an actor in a small theater. In 1894, he chang