Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl (February 3, 1887 - November 3, 1914) was an Austrian poet, whose deeply disturbing work assaults the emotions with its powerful metaphors of destruction, death, the search for meaning, and a tenuous relationship with God.

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Trakl was born and lived the first eighteen years of his life in Salzburg. His father Tobias was a dealer in hardware, while his mother Maria was a housewife with strong interests in art and music. Maria Trakl also suffered from mental illness. Her mental illness could have caused an environment where her children could have come to sustain similar symptoms to her own especially noticed in both Trakl and his sister Margarete (called Grete). Grete was Trakl's closest companion: some scholars suspect that the two were incestuously involved.

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