. . "Leonhard Frank (4 September 1882 in W\u00FCrzburg \u2013 18 August 1961 in Munich) was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel The Robber Band (1914, tr. 1928). When a Berlin journalist celebrated in a famous caf\u00E9 about news of the loss of the ship RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German submarine, Frank was upset \u2013 and slapped the man in his face."@en .