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Hanns Johst
Hanns Johst (right) receiving a literary prize from Alfred Rosenberg in 1935.
Hanns Johst (July 8, 1890 - November 23, 1978) was a German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate.
Johst studied medicine and philosophy and - later - history of art.
He volunteered for the army in 1914.
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In 1918 he settled down at the Starnberger See.
His early work is influenced by Expressionism. Examples include Der Anfang [The Beginning] (1917) and Der König [The King] (1920)). Later, he turned to a naturalist philosophy in plays such as Wechsler und Händler [Money changers and Traders] (1923) and Thomas Paine (1927)).
Bertolt Brecht's first play Baal was written in response to Johst's play Der Einsame [The Lonely], a dramatization of the life of anti-Semitic playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe. In 1928 Johst joined Alfred Rosenberg's "Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur" (Militant League for German Culture) designed to combat "Jewish" influence in German culture.
In 1932 he joined