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Eduard Trautner
1890–1968
A restless literary voice of the Weimar years, he wrote sharp, experimental work while also training and practicing as a doctor. His life later took an unexpected turn in Australia, where he became known for important early research on lithium in psychiatry.
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Der Mord am Polizeiagenten Blau
by Eduard Trautner
About the author
Born in Vienna in 1890, he moved between medicine and literature with unusual ease. In the 1920s he was active in Berlin as a writer, poet, editor, and translator, and has been described by scholars as part of the late Expressionist and New Objectivist world. His best-known books include Der Mord am Polizeiagenten Blau and Gott, Gegenwart und Kokain.
His life was marked by migration and reinvention. After his years in German literary circles, he later built a second career in Australia as a pharmacology researcher, where he became associated with pioneering work on lithium treatment for psychiatric illness.
Some library records list him as 1890–1968, but multiple biographical sources consulted here give his death year as 1978, so the exact dating in older catalogs may be inconsistent. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found during this search.