Georg Trakl

Description: (Austrian Expressionist Poet Best Known for His Poem ‘Grodek')
Georg Trakl had had a tumultuous early life, having been addicted to drugs, apart from being attracted to his own sister. He initially aspired to be a pharmacist but later became one of Austria’s finest elegists. The Expressionist poet wrote masterpieces such as Grodek. He died of a drug overdose.

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Birthday February 3, 1887 (Aquarius)
Died on November 3, 1914
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