Georg Kulka

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Georg Kulka (born June 5, 1897 as Georg Christoph Kulka in Weidling / Lower Austria , † April 29, 1929 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Georg Kulka was the son of a Jewish grain dealer. After graduating from high school , he took part in the First World War from 1917 as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army . From 1918 he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna . At the same time, Kulka, who strongly sympathized with anarchism in the early 1920s , published poems in expressionist magazines such as Franz Pfemfert's “ Aktion ” and Wolf Przygode's “ Das Gedicht ”. In 1920, Karl Kraus raised massive plagiarism allegations against Kulka in the “ Fackel ” after Kulka had published excerpts from Jean Paul's “ Preschool of Aesthetics ” under his own name in the “Blätter des Burgtheater ” . Kulka asserted that it was only a matter of drawing attention to Jean Paul, but his literary reputation was so ruined that he withdrew from literary life. 1921 doctorate Georg Kulka with a thesis on Jean Paul to the doctor of philosophy. From 1922 to 1923 he worked as a manufacturer in the Potsdamer Verlag Kiepenheuer . He married the actress Anna Höllering in 1923 and continued his grain business after his father's death. 1929 Kulka committed in Vienna suicide . He was buried in the New Cemetery in Potsdam .

Georg Kulka's work consists primarily of poems which, since their rediscovery in the 1960s, have in part been viewed as forerunners of modern experimental poetry .

Works

  • The step brother . Strache, Vienna 1920.
  • The condition of Karl Kraus . Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna 1920 (together with Wolf Przygode ).
  • Requiem , G. Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1921.
  • The idea of ​​immortality in Jean Paul until 1797 . Diss., Vienna 1921.
  • Record and lyric . Printed by Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart 1963.
  • Works . Edition text and criticism, München 1987.
  • Visibility. Record-keeping prose . Prose poetry cycle. hochroth Verlag , Berlin 2011.

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SURNAME Kulka, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kulka, Georg Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Weidling (municipality of Klosterneuburg) , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1929
Place of death Vienna