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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 .
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.
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.
Despite a short life and a narrow work, Georg Trakl is one of the most important representatives of German-language poetry of the 20th century. His most important stations in his life were Salzburg, Vienna, Innsbruck and, most recently, the war front in Galicia.
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.
Georg Trakl was one of the major poets of German literary Expressionism (with Georg Heym and Gottfried Benn). Today, he is ranked by many critics and readers as one of the...
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...
Austrian poet. Examine the life, times, and work of Georg Trakl through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Overview. While the influence of Austrian author Georg Trakl's poetry has been widely discussed, his work is best known for its lyric qualities. His controlled uses of colors, sounds, and ciphers blend into brooding meditations that speak out against the doomed existence of man.
Trakl’s life was mysterious and fascinating, as is his unmissable poetry in A Skeleton Plays Violin.
