Editing Hermann Ungar (section)

==Biography==
Ungar's father, Emil, was a cider maker who served as Mayor of Boskovice. After graduating from the public schools in [[Brno]], Hermann Ungar went to Berlin, where he took courses in [[Oriental Studies]] until 1911, followed by legal and philosophical studies in Munich and Prague. After service in World War I, where he sustained serious injuries on the [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galician Front]], he passed the state examination and received his degree in 1918.

At first, he worked as a lawyer and director of the theater in [[Cheb]], where he also wrote plays. In 1922, he became the {{ill|Legationsrat|de}} (Legation Counselor) at the new Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin. In the same year he married Margarete Weiss (born Stransky).<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://hermannungar.com/downloads/ungar_family.pdf | title=The life of Hermann Ungar 1893 – 1929 | first=Vicky | last=Unwin | website=hermannungar.com}}</ref> Later he returned to Prague and became the Ministerial Commissioner at the Foreign Affairs ministry. While there, he began to associate with a literary circle that included [[Franz Kafka]], [[Max Brod]] and [[Ernst Weiß]].

His writing was becoming successful, so he quit the diplomatic service in 1929, but died not long after, aged only 36, during an [[appendectomy]] that had been postponed for too long.

His wife and two sons fled to the UK in 1939. His brother and parents were murdered in [[Auschwitz]] in 1942, but his sister was able to escape and went to Tel Aviv. 
   
His play ''Der rote General'' was a great success in Berlin in 1928. His second play ''Die Gartenlaube'' was also a great success but was not performed in Berlin until shortly after his death. These plays have been printed and extensively reviewed. His novels were influenced by [[expressionism]] and [[psychoanalysis]] and were praised by [[Thomas Mann]], who became a godfather to Ungar's son, Tom (born Thomas Michael Ungar).<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9413034/Tom-Unwin.html "Obituary of Tom Unwin"], ''The Telegraph'', 19 July 2012.</ref> According to a 2012 obituary of Tom (who had changed his name to Unwin), his father "wrote about sex and psychosis in a manner that shocked the establishment".<ref>Vicky Unwin, [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/jun/07/tom-unwin-obituary "Tom Unwin obituary"], ''The Guardian'', 7 June 2012.</ref>