Hans Henny Jahnn: October 2011

Photograph by Hans Henny Jahnn

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Hans Henny Jahnn (1894 - 1959)

"Writer, playwright, renowned for his rediscovery and publishing of baroque music, organ builder and restorer, hormone researcher! The basic motto of the trilogy of novels from which this story comes was "The living are few, the dead many." Stories often appeared in his novels, with no warning and no apparent connection to their context, this text [Kebad Kenya] being a case in point. Jahnn was a unique writer who rejected conventional morals and institutions and conjured up a pan-eroticism and anti-civilisatory standpoint, where time and place melt and merge. He has never been widely popular but is often cited as one of the most important German writers of this century."

--Bio from Atlas's Black Letters Unleashed anthology.

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