Paul Boldt

Born on December 31, 1885, in Christfelde in West Prussia, Paul Boldt was a German poet associated with Expressionism. His active writing years fell around the time of the First World War, and he is remembered today as a striking but neglected figure in early 20th-century German literature.

Boldt published just one poetry collection in his lifetime, Junge Pferde! That small body of work helped give him a place among Expressionist poets, especially for readers drawn to vivid urban scenes and concentrated, image-rich verse.

He died in Freiburg im Breisgau on March 16, 1921, at only 35. Although he never became as famous as some of his contemporaries, later literary archives and reference works have continued to single him out as an important rediscovery within German poetry.