Kramer, Theodor#
Kramer, Theodor, b. Niederhollabrunn (Lower Austria), Jan. 1, 1897, d. Vienna, April 3, 1958, poet. Emigrated to England in 1939, returned to Vienna in 1957. After World War I bookseller and sales representative for a publishing house, then free-lance writer, co-founder of the "Vereinigung Sozialistischer Schriftsteller Oesterreichs" (an association of Austrian Socialist writers). Was the most prolific and, with J. Weinheber the most successful Austrian poet of the First Republic. His poems, conventional in form, give a description of the misery and hardship of the poorest sections of society, his later works deal with his experiences during flight and exile.
Works#
Die Gaunerzinke, 1929; Kalendarium, 1930; Die ohne Stimme sind, 1936; Verbannt aus Oesterreich, 1943; Wien 1938, 1946; Die gruenen Kader, 1946; Die untere Schenke, 1946; Lob der Verzweiflung, 1947.- Edition: Gesammelte Gedichte, 3 vols., 1984-1987.Literature#
D. Strigl, T. K., Wo niemand zuhaus ist, dort bin ich zuhaus, 1993; E. Chvojka and K. Kaiser, Vielleicht hab ich es leicht, weil schwer, gehabt, 1997; NDB.