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Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists . [1] He is perhaps best known for his poem " Grodek ", which he wrote shortly before he died of a cocaine overdose .
- University of Vienna (pharmacy)
- Expressionism
- Austro-Hungarian
- Poet, pharmacist, writer
Georg Trakl is an important lyric poet in German literature of the early 20th century. Critics associate his work with various modern artistic movements, and he is viewed as one of the principal writers to set the dark, introspective tone that later influenced the course of German expressionism. Affinities with imagism have also been noted in ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Georg Trakl (born Feb. 3, 1887, Salzburg, Austria—died Nov. 3, 1914, Cracow, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Pol.]) was an Expressionist poet whose personal and wartime torments made him Austria’s foremost elegist of decay and death. He influenced Germanic poets after both world wars.
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Georg Trakl was born on 3 February 1887 as the fifth of seven children in the Schaffner-Haus on Waagplatz in Salzburg. His Protestant parents - his father was German-Hungarian, his mother of Bohemian descent - had immigrated from Wiener Neustadt to Salzburg in 1879. His father was a successful ironmonger and was able to open his own shop on ...
Georg Trakl was born in Salzburg in 1887 to a middle class merchant family seeking social respectability in conservative Catholic Austria. From a young age he showed signs of anxiety, morbid depression and most ominously suicidal tendencies.
Feb 3, 2020 · Georg Trakl (1887-1914) On February 3, 1887, Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born. Trakl is most probably the most important Austrian poet of Expressionism with strong influences of Symbolism. However, it is not possible to clearly assign his poetic works to one of the almost simultaneous currents of literary history of the 20th century.
In 1908 he went to Vienna for a two-year program at the university to obtain his pharmaceutical degree. Trakl’s life there remained lonely, and he moved frequently from one furnished room to ...
