Early life
Kraus was innate into the moneyed Jewish family of Jacob Kraus, a papermaker, & his married woman Ernestine, née Kantor, around Jičín, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). A personal moved to Vienna in 1877. Kraus enrolled as a law student at a University of Vienna. Beginning within April of the equivalent month he began contributing to the paper Wiener Literaturzeitung. Inside 1894 he changed his subject area to philosophy & German literature. He discontinued his studies within 1896.

Writing
Within 1896 he left university without a sheepskin to run function as an actor, stage-director & performing artist, joining the Jung Wien (Young Vienna) group, which involved Peter Altenberg, Leopold Andrian, Hermann Bahr, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Felix Dörmann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Felix Salten. Inside 1897, yet, Kraus broke from either this class action by owning the biting caustic remark Die demolierte Literatur [Demolished Literature], & was known as Vienna correspondent for the newspaper Breslauer Zeitung. Of these month late, as an sturdy advocate of Jewish assimilation, he attacked a Zionist Theodor Herzl with his polemic Eine Krone für Zion [A Crown for Zion] (1898).

In April 1, 1899, he renounced Judaism and in the same season founded his have newspaper, Die Fackel ("The Torch"), which he continued to direct, publish, & write until his demise, & from either which he launched his attacks in hypocrisy, psychoanalysis, corruption of the Habsburg empire, nationalism of the pan-German movement, laissez-faire economic policies, and many more bêtes noires.

When at a beginning, a Fackel was similar to journals rather a magazine Weltbühne, it became additional & supplementary the magazine that was priviledged inside editorial independence that Kraus may provided by his funding. A Fackel printed what Kraus wanted to exist as printed. Within its number 1 decade, contributors involved numerous easily-known writers & creative person like Peter Altenberg, Richard Dehmel, Egon Friedell, Oskar Kokoschka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Arnold Schönberg, August Strindberg, Georg Trakl, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Oscar Wilde. Fallowing 1911, all a same, Kraus was unremarkably the resole creator. Kraus' act was published about solely in the Fackel.

Authors world health organization were supported by Kraus include Peter Altenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Georg Trakl.

A Fackel targeted corruption, journalists and brute behaviour. Notable enemies were Maximilian Harden (in the mud of the Harden-Eulenburg affair), Moriz Benedikt (owner of the newspaper Neue Freie Presse), Alfred Kerr, Hermann Bahr, Imre Bekessy and Johannes Schober.

Additionally to his writings, Kraus gave many extremely infuential public readings when you took his career - between 1892 & 1936 he assumed close to 700 a single-human performances, reading from either a dramas of Bertolt Brecht, Gerhart Hauptmann, Johann Nestroy, Goethe, and Shakespeare, and besides performing Offenbach's operettas, accompanied by piano & singing all the roles himself. Elias Canetti, e.g. world health organization regularly attended Kraus' lectures, highborn his autobiography "Die Fackel im Ohr" (yours free! translation to English: hearing to the Fackel) refers to the magazine & its creator.

Kraus never married, however from either 1913 until his dying, he experienced a close relationship by having the Baroness Sidonie Nádherný von Borutin (1885-1950). Around 1911 he was baptized as a Catholic, but inside 1923 he left the Catholic Church.

Selected works
Die demolierte Literatur [Demolished Literature] (1897) Eine Krone für Zion" [A Crown for Zion] (1898) Sittlichkeit und Kriminalität [Morality and Crimical Justice] (1908) Sprüche und Widersprüche [Sayings and Contradictions] (1909) Die chinesische Mauer (1910) Pro domo et mundo [For Home and for the World] (1912) Nestroy und die Nachtwelt (1913) Worte in Versen (1916-30) Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1918) Weltgericht (1919) Nachts [At Night] (1919) Untergang der Welt durch schwarze Magie [The End of the World Through Black Magic](1922) Literatur (1921) Traumstück (1922) Die letzten Tage der Menschheit: Tragödie in fünf Akten mit Vorspiel und Epilog [The Last Days of Mankind: Tragedy in Five Acts with Preamble and Epilogue] (1922) Wolkenkuckucksheim (1923) Traumtheater (1924) Die Unüberwindlichen (1927) Epigramme (1927) Die Unüberwindlichen (1928) Literatur und Lüge (1929) Shakespeares Sonette (1933) Die Sprache (posthumous, 1937) Die dritte Walpurgisnacht [The Third Night of St. Walpurgis] (posthumous, 1952)

Some work has been re-issued in recent years:

Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, Bühnenfassung des Autors, 1992 Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-22091-8 Die Sprache, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37817-1 Die chinesische Mauer, mit acht Illustrationen von Oskar Kokoschka, 1999, Insel, ISBN 3-458-19199-2 Aphorismen. Sprüche und Widersprüche. Pro domo et mundo. Nachts, 1986, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37818-X Sittlichkeit und Krimininalität, 1987, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37811-2 Dramen. Literatur, Traumstück, Die unüberwindlichen u.a., 1989, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37821-X Literatur und Lüge, 1999, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37813-9 Shakespeares Sonette, Nachdichtung, 1977, Diogenes, ISBN 3-257-20381-0 Theater der Dichtung mit Bearbeitungen von Shakespeare-Dramen, Suhrkamp 1994, ISBN 3-518-37825-2 Hüben und Drüben, 1993, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37828-7 Die Stunde des Gerichts, 1992, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37827-9 Untergang der Welt durch schwarze Magie, 1989, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37814-7 Brot und Lüge, 1991, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37826-0 Die Katastrophe der Phrasen'', 1994, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-37829-5