Hermann stehr biography of alberta williams

Hammer, Roth Eisenach, Germany , Stehr's writing deals with human complexities, and religious and philosophical questions, and helped provide solace for an author afflicted with serious depression. Erich P. Hofacker, writing in Dictionary of Literary Biography, said Stehr was esteemed in the early twentieth century, although his work has since gone out of print.

And another is reverence, and awe. Stehr rebelled against his parents' strict Catholic dogma.

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He trained to be an elementary school teacher but upset authorities with his dark, seemingly atheistic viewpoint. Between and Stehr lived hand to mouth, substitute-teaching in the remote Silesian mountains. Upon accepting his first permanent job, he felt persecuted by authority figures, became lonely and alienated, and battled with persistent insomnia.

Hofacker wrote, "He developed a marked persecution complex which is reflected in the literary works of the period. In a reader at the S. Fischer publishing house, Moritz Hermann, took an interest in Stehr's work, publishing two of his novellas in a book titled Auf Leben und Tod.