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Christian Morgenstern
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health. His travels, though they failed to restore him to health, allow…
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culture · German author and poet (1871–1914) · poet · writer · translator · literary editor · journalist · prose writer · playwright · librettist · anthroposophist · theosophist · also Christian Morgenstern, Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern, Morgenstern
Born 6 May 1871 · Died 31 March 1914 · Q44652
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2026· 2 entries
“I'm a man of limits: forever physically, emotionally, morally and artistically on the brink of plunging into the abyss. Yet I manage to keep my balance and possess presence of mind.”
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2019· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Christian Morgenstern
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1918· 1 entry
Entitled Stufen: Eine Entwickelung in Aphorismen und Tagebuch-Notizen (Stages: A Development in Aphorisms and Diary Notes)
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1916· 1 entry
Der Gingganz in 1919, and Alle Galgenlieder in 1932
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1914· 3 entries
Died 1914-03-31.
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Of tuberculosis, which he had contracted from his mother, who died in 1881
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“None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one’s spirit.”
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1910· 1 entry
“For, he reasons pointedly / That which must not, can not be.”
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1871· 1 entry
Born 1871-05-06.
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