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Born February 3, 1887 • Salzburg • Austria
Died November 3, 1914 (aged 27) • Kraków • Poland
Movement / Style Expressionism
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Anton Wildgans
Austrian dramatist and poet
Werfel, Franz
Franz Werfel
German writer
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Gottfried Benn
German writer
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Else Lasker-Schüler
German author
Fritz von Unruh.
Fritz von Unruh
German author
Becher, Johannes Robert
Johannes Robert Becher
German writer and government official
Toller
Ernst Toller
German writer
Däubler
Theodor Däubler
German-language poet
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
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Karl Kraus
Austrian writer
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Nikolaus Lenau
Austrian poet
Weinheber
Josef Weinheber
Austrian poet
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Anastasius Grün
Austrian poet
Portrait of Austrian author Alexander Lernet-Holenia, an older man in a suit and tie, seated and looking toward the camera with a slight smile.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Austrian writer
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Ilse Aichinger
Austrian author
Hamerling, Robert
Robert Hamerling
German poet

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