Eduard Trautner

Born in 1890, Eduard Trautner was a German writer, editor, and physician whose literary work is tied to the Expressionist and New Objectivist circles of the 1920s. Research summaries describe him as an active figure in Munich’s revolutionary and artistic life after World War I, and later as an editor associated with important publishing and cultural networks in Berlin.

His best-known works include the short play Haft (1921), the political crime study Der Mord am Polizeiagenten Blau (1924), and the novel Gott, Gegenwart und Kokain (1927). Although he published relatively little, his writing has drawn renewed attention for the way it combines political tension, urban modernity, and sharp psychological observation.

Trautner also trained and worked as a doctor, and later sources connect his life to medical and scientific work outside Germany, including research in Australia. Some references disagree on his year of death, but the material found here consistently confirms his birth year as 1890 and shows why he remains an intriguing, somewhat elusive figure in 20th-century German literature.