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Julius Maria Becker
1887–1949
A German poet, playwright, and author from Aschaffenburg, he built a literary life that stretched from the years before World War I through the uneasy decades between the wars. His work earned broad attention in 1918, and his papers later revealed just how large and varied his writing life really was.
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Gedichte
by Julius Maria Becker
About the author
Born in Aschaffenburg on March 29, 1887, Julius Maria Becker became known as a German author, dramatist, and lyric poet. He trained as a teacher and also worked as a journalist and public speaker, while staying closely tied to his hometown for most of his life.
Becker had already made a name for himself beyond his region when his station drama Das letzte Gericht brought him wider recognition in 1918. His writing moved across poetry, drama, and prose, and later accounts describe him as an important literary figure in Aschaffenburg between the world wars.
He died in Aschaffenburg in 1949. A substantial literary estate survives in the Stadt- und Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg, including manuscripts, correspondence, and his private library, offering a vivid picture of a deeply committed writer whose reputation was rooted both in local culture and in a wider German literary world.