Oskar Panizza

Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor. He is best known for his provocative tragicomedy, Das Liebeskonzil (The Love Council, 1894), for which he served a one-year prison sentence after being convicted in Munich in 1895 on 93 counts of blasphemy. Born: 12 November 1853 in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria Died: 28 September 1921 (aged 67) in Bayreuth, Bavaria