Georg Heym

Georg Heym was born in 1887 in Hirschberg, in Silesia, the son of a prosecutor who became advocate general at the Reich military court. He followed his parents from posting to posting, reluctantly studied law at Würzburg, Jena and Berlin, and did not complete his training period at the court. In the spring of 1910 he joined the Neuer Club, a circle of young Berlin writers, where he read his poems. On 16 January 1912, while skating on the Havel with his friend Ernst Balcke, he drowned trying to rescue him when the latter fell through the ice.

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• PoetryDer ewige TagGeorg Heym · 1911not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain