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Max Mell

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Max Mell
Born10 November 1882
Maribor, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died12 December 1971 (aged 88)
Vienna, Austria
OccupationWriter

Max Mell (1882–1971) was an Austrian writer. He wrote plays, novels and screenplays.[1] He was born in Maribor, then part of the Austrian Empire but now in Slovenia. He studied at Vienna University, and served in the Austrian military during World War I.[2] In 1914 he won the Bauernfeld Prize, and in 1929 he was awarded the Franz Grillparzer Prize. Culturally conservative, in 1951 he tried to counter what he regarded as Nazi distortions of the epic Nibelungenlied with a more faithful reading of the original text.[3] In 1959 he was given the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.

References

  1. ^ McConnell p.136
  2. ^ "OVERVIEW Max Mell (1882—1971)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ McConnell p.136

Bibliography

  • Winder McConnell. A Companion to the Nibelungenlied. Camden House, 1998.

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