!!!Kießling, Franz

Kiessling, Franz, b. Znojmo, Czech Republic (then Znaim), Jan. 
10, 1918, d. Korneuburg (Lower Austria), Feb. 20, 1979, poet, 
civil servant; editor of the weekly paper "Offenes Wort". His poems 
focused on the ideas of nature, love and time. In 1943 awarded the 
Stifter Prize, in 1950 the Austrian State Prize.

!Works
Das ungefragte Herz, 1948; Seht, wie ihr lebt!, 1955; Lob einer 
Stunde, ed. by L. Wech, 1986.


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