!!!Basil, Otto 




Pseudonyms: __Markus Hörmann, Camill Schmall__


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b. Vienna, Dec. 24, 1901, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 19, 1983, poet, novelist, feuilletonist and editor. 
1923-1925 wrote for the magazines "Das Wort" and "Prager Abendblatt"; 
1938 banned from writing. 1945-1948 editor of "Plan", an avant-garde 
magazine on literature and art (founded 1937). 1981 awarded the 
Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism.

!Publications
Sternbild der Waage, 1945; Apokalypt. Vers, 1947; 
Monographs about G. Trakl (1965) and J. Nestroy (1967); Monographs on 
artists and poets such as E. A. Poe, K. Kraus, P. Altenberg, A. Loos, 
F. Werfel, 1968-1971; Wenn das der Fuehrer wuesste, 1966 (novel); Lob 
und Tadel, 1981 (collection of theatre reviews).

!Literature
V. Kaukoreit and W. Schmidt-Dengler (eds.), O. B. und die 
Literatur um 1945, 1998.



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