Early Career
After studying a variety of subjects, he became a theatre critic and founded the culture magazine, "Der Spiegel", in 1908. The first issue on 30 April appeared. After 15 issues and six months, they merged with Siegfried Jacobsohn 's journal The stage for which Feuchtwanger continued to write. In 1912 he married a Jewish merchant's daughter Marta Loeffler . She was pregnant at the wedding, but the child died shortly after birth. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Feuchtwanger served in the German military service, but was released early for health reasons. Feuchtwanger's experience as a soldier in the German Army during World War I contributed to a leftist tilt in his writings.
In 1916, he published a play based on the story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer which premiered in 1917 but Feuchtwanter withdrew it a couple years later as he was dissatisfied with it.
During the November Revolution of 1918/1919, Feuchtwanger was ill and unable to participate.
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