biography
pronunciation:
[trakel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1914)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Salzburg, C Austria. A pharmacist, he published poems in the periodical Der Brenner and was acquainted with the influential Expressionist poet, Else Lasker Schüler. He suffered from depression and had a serious drug problem, eventually dying of an overdose of cocaine. His melancholic poetry is rich with apocalyptic imagery, focusing on the individual between purity and sin, indicative perhaps of his alleged incestuous relationship with his sister, as in the poetry collection Sebastian im Traum (1915). His Expressionist poetry, notably the collections Offenbarung und Untergang (1947) and Helian (1963), published posthumously, had a great influence on post-war poetry. |
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