Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor.
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Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor. He is best known for his provocative tragicomedy, Das Liebeskonzil, for which he served a one-year prison sentence after being convicted in Munich in 1895 on 93 counts of blasphemy. Upon his release from prison, he lived for eight years in exile, first in Zürich and later in Paris.
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deceased
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Lived 1853 to 1921 · aged 67
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