page_title: Ödön von Horváth
section_title: Literary themes
hierarchical_section_title: Ödön von Horváth / Literary themes
caption_attribution_description: Tombstone of Ödön von Horvath, his parents and his brother. Heiligenstädter Friedhof (cemetery), 19th District, Vienna, Austria
context_page_description: Edmund Josef von Horváth was a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist. He preferred the Hungarian version of his first name and published as Ödön von Horváth.
context_section_description: Important topics in Horváth's works were popular culture, politics and history. He especially tried to warn of the dawn of fascism and its dangers.  Among Horváth's more enduringly popular works, Jugend ohne Gott (Youth Without God) describes the youth in Nazi Germany from a disgruntled teacher's point of view, who initially is an opportunist, but is helpless against the racist and militaristic Nazi propaganda that de-humanizes his pupils.
  The title of his novel Ein Kind unserer Zeit (A Child of Our Time) was used in English by Michael Tippett for his oratorio (1939–1941), composed during World War II.
caption: Ödön von Horváth's family tombstone in Vienna
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