Career
He wrote in Standard German as well as the Alsatian dialect. Serving at the East Front during the First World War, he was made prisoner in Nizhny Novgorod, where he wrote Das Galgenstüblein in June 1915.
He wrote in Standard German as well as the Alsatian dialect. Serving at the East Front during the First World War, he was made prisoner in Nizhny Novgorod, where he wrote Das Galgenstüblein in June 1915.