!!!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.



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