biography
pronunciation:
[hiym]
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| lived:
| (1887–1912)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Hirschberg, Silesia. An early Expressionist, influenced by the works of Verlaine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Hölderlin, he later found his own style, which in turn had a lasting influence on Expressionist poetry. In such works as Der Dieb (1913) he takes the senselessness of existence as his theme, evoking individual loneliness and the desolation of modern urban life. He drowned while ice-skating on the river Havel. |
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