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Eduard Trautner
1890–1968
A restless figure of German modernism, he moved between medicine and literature, writing sharp late-Expressionist plays, poems, and prose. His life later took an unexpected turn in Australia, where he also became known for scientific work in pharmacology.
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Der Mord am Polizeiagenten Blau
by Eduard Trautner
About the author
Born in 1890, Eduard Trautner was a German-speaking writer, poet, dramatist, translator, and physician associated with the Expressionist and New Objectivist literary circles of the 1920s. Reference sources on his life place his birth on October 13, 1890, and identify him as an important but somewhat elusive literary figure whose work ranged across drama, poetry, and prose.
Among the works most often highlighted are Haft, Nacht, Der Mord am Polizeiagenten Blau, and Gott, Gegenwart und Kokain. He also worked as an editor and translator, and his writing is remembered for its intensity and its connection to the experimental literary culture of the interwar years.
Sources about Trautner agree that he later built a second career in Australia as a pharmacology researcher. The material I found differs on his year of death, with some references giving 1978 rather than 1968, so it seems safest to note that he died in Queensland after a life that bridged literature, medicine, and scientific research.