biography
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| lived:
| (1931–89)
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| biography:
| Austrian writer, born in Heerlen, S Netherlands. He depicted human beings as governed by the laws of sickness and death in his sombre and melancholic poems Gesammelte Gedichte (1991), and markedly individualistic prose as found in the novel Frost (1963). Some of his novels are autobiographical, such as Die Ursache (1975) and Der Keller (1976), and others tend towards social criticism, including Wittgensteins Neffe (1982), Holzfällen. Eine Erregung (1984), and Auslösung. Ein Zerfall (1986). His provocative tragicomic plays include Vor dem Ruhestand (1979), Der Theatermacher (1984), and Heldenplatz (1988). He was awarded the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1970. |
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