Walter Hasenclever

Walter Hasenclever
Hasenclever c. 1917
Hasenclever c. 1917
BornWalter Georg Alfred Hasenclever
(1890-07-08)8 July 1890
Aachen, Germany
Died22 June 1940(1940-06-22) (aged 49)
Les Milles, France
OccupationPoet, Playwright
NationalityGerman
Literary movementExpressionism
Notable worksThe Son (1914)

Walter Georg Alfred Hasenclever (8 July 1890 – 22 June 1940) was a German Jewish Expressionist poet and playwright. His works were banned when the Nazis came to power and he went into exile in France. There he was imprisoned as a "foreign enemy". He died in Les Milles (Camp des Milles) near Aix-en-Provence.