!!!Zand, Herbert

b. Knoppen (municipality of Pichl-Kainisch, Styria), Nov. 14, 1923, 
d. Vienna, July 14, 1970, narrative writer, poet, essayist and 
translator. Was seriously wounded in World War II, lived in Vienna 
from 1954 and worked as a publisher's reader, worked for the Austrian 
Society of Literature from 1961. The traumatic war experience is a 
central theme in his work ("Letzte Ausfahrt", 1953, novel). Death and 
hopelessness are leitmotifs. His novel "Erben des Feuers" deals with 
conflicts of postwar society in Vienna (1961).

!Further works
Poetry: Die Glaskugel, 1953; Aus zerschossenem 
Sonnengeflecht, 1973. - Novels: Die Sonnenstadt, 1949; Der Weg nach 
Hassi el emel, 1955. - Narratives, essays, autobiographical writings, 
translations. - Edition: Collected works, ed. by W. Kraus, 6 vols., 
1971-1973.

!Literature
M. Kubaczek, Zur Motivik in der Prosa H. Z., in: Die Rampe 
2, 1982.



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