Gerhard Fritsch
Gerhard Fritsch (28 March 1924 – 22 March 1969) was an Austrian novelist and poet.[1] 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.[2]
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]
- ^ 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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