Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl (1887-1914), the son of an ironmonger from Salzburg, trained as a pharmacist from 1905 to 1908, a trade that gave him access to the substances he used all his life. Ludwig von Ficker, who published his poems in his Innsbruck journal, had Ludwig Wittgenstein grant him a sum of twenty thousand crowns. Mobilised in the medical service, he had to tend alone, after the battle of Grodek, a barn full of wounded men; he tried to kill himself, was placed under observation in the military hospital in Kraków and died there of a dose of cocaine, at the age of twenty-seven.

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• PoetrySebastian DreamingSebastian im TraumGeorg Trakl · 1915LiteraturePublic domain