Ernst Jandl

Ernst Jandl (1925-2000), the son of a Viennese bank clerk, lost his mother at the age of fourteen. Called up after his school-leaving exam in 1943, he was taken prisoner by the Americans and spent ten months in a camp in England, then studied German and English, wrote a thesis on Schnitzler and taught at a Viennese secondary school from 1949 to 1979. Linked from 1954 to the poet Friederike Mayröcker, he wrote prizewinning radio plays with her and received the Büchner Prize in 1984.

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• PoetryLaut und LuiseErnst Jandl · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature