Gerhard Fritsch
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| Born | 28 March 1924 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 22 March 1969 (aged 44) Vienna, Austria |
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Gerhard Fritsch (28 March 1924 – 22 March 1969) was an Austrian novelist and poet.[1][2] He achieved considerable success with his first novel, Moos auf den Steinen (Moss on the Stones). It was later adapted into a film. Fritsch's second novel, Fasching (Carnival), was published in 1969, the year in which he committed suicide.
In 1961, he translated W. H. Auden's long poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio into German under the title Hier und jetzt. Ein Weihnachtsoratorium.[3]
Further reading
[edit]- Augustinus P. Dierick: “Politics, the Elegiac, and the Carnivalesque: Gerhard Fritsch’s Moos auf den Steinen and Fasching.” Seminar, 38:1 (February 2002).
References
[edit]- ↑ Winkler, Willi (19 August 2019). "Von den Männern zu den Mädchen". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German).
- ↑ Modern Austrian Literature Through the Lens of Adaptation
- ↑ Auden, W. H. Hier und jetzt. Ein Weihnachtsoratorium. Translated by Gerhard Fritsch, Otto Müller, 1961.
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