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Julius Horst
writer
- Born:
- 1864-12-12, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austrian Empire [now Austria]
- Died:
- 1943-05-12, Vienna, Austria
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Innsbruck, December 12, 1864: a midwinter’s day greeted the arrival of Julius Horst, the boy who would grow up to put Vienna’s cobblestones, coffeehouses and hidden courtyards on paper. By the mid-1930s Horst’s stories had leapt from the page to the screen, powering three very different films: the bittersweet 1937 farewell Der letzte Wiener Fiaker, the lilting 1936 Springtime in Vienna, and—two decades earlier—the science-fiction provocation A World Without Men (1914). His pen finally rested on 12 May 1943 in Vienna, the city whose heartbeat had filled every line he wrote.
