author
Georg Trakl
1887–1914
A haunting voice of early modern poetry, his work turns twilight, silence, and ruin into unforgettable music. Writing in the years just before and during World War I, he became one of the key figures of Austrian Expressionism.
2 Audiobooks
Gedichte
by Georg Trakl
Die Dichtungen von Georg Trakl Erste Gesamtausgabe
by Georg Trakl
About the author
Born in Salzburg in 1887, Georg Trakl trained as a pharmacist, but he is remembered above all as a poet whose brief life left a lasting mark on German-language literature. His poems are known for their dreamlike imagery, dark emotional atmosphere, and recurring visions of decay, autumn, night, and spiritual crisis.
Critics often place him among the central writers of Austrian Expressionism. His life was troubled, and his experience as a military pharmacist during World War I deepened the sense of suffering and collapse that runs through his later work. He died in Kraków in 1914 at just twenty-seven.
Even with so short a career, Trakl's poetry influenced later generations of writers and remains widely read for its strange beauty, intensity, and musical language.