Author · Austria
Hans Carl Artmann
Died in 2000
Hans Carl Artmann (1921-2000), son of a cobbler from the Viennese district of Breitensee, did a commercial apprenticeship and taught himself languages. Called up in 1940 and gravely wounded on the Eastern Front, he deserted twice, knew the prisons and disciplinary units of the Wehrmacht, then went over to the Americans in 1945. A co-founder of the Vienna Group, he translated from Gaelic, Yiddish, Swedish and Dutch, wandered between Stockholm, Berlin and Malmö before settling in Salzburg in 1972, and received the Büchner Prize in 1997.
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- PoetryThe Sun Was a Green Eggmed ana schwoazzn dintnHans Carl Artmann · 1958Literature