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Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
About Hans Sahl
- Hans Sahl (born Hans Salomon in Dresden on 20 May 1902; died in Tübingen on 27 April 1993) was a poet, critic, and novelist who began during the Weimar Republic.
- He came from an affluent Jewish background, but like many such German Jews he fled Germany due to the Nazis.
- First to Czechoslovakia in 1933, then to Switzerland, and then France.
- In France he was interned along with Walter Benjamin.
- He would later flee Marseille and work with Varian Fry to help other artists or intellectuals fleeing Nazism.
- He became known as one of the anti-fascist exiles and in the US translated Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams into German.
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