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The Life and Poetry of Georg Trakl in the Shadow of the First World War
April 8, 2019 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm +04
About the Event:
Georg Trakl was born on Feb. 3, 1887, in Salzburg, Austria. He was an expressionist poet whose emotional life story and wartime torments made him Austria’s foremost elegist of decay and death. Like other famous Austrian artists (e.g. painters Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, composer Alban Berg, writers Robert Musil and Heimito von Doderer) he was deeply influenced by WWI, that much, that he either attempted or threatened to shoot himself in the aftermath of these horrors and was sent to a military hospital at Cracow for an observation. There he died of an overdose of cocaine, perhaps taken inadvertently.
About the Speaker:
J. Dum-Tragut is Professor of Armenian Studies, General Linguistics and Director of the Center for the Study of the Christian East. In the last three years, she has been working on a comprehensive project to investigate the biographies of Armenian prisoners-of-war, who were detained in Austro-Hungarian camps as soldiers of the Russian Tsarist army during the First World War.
Language: English
