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Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several col…
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culture · Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926) · writer · poet · playwright · translator · novelist · also Rainer Maria Rilke, Li-erh-kʻo, Rainer Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, Reiner Marie Rilke, Rainŏ Maria Rilkʻe
Born 4 December 1875 · Died 29 December 1926 · Q76483
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2026· 3 entries
“a major in the second cavalry squadron”
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Museo del Prado: Rainer Maria Rilke y el arte español
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2022· 1 entry
BBC: Rainer Maria Rilke
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2021· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Rainer Maria Rilke and Complete Book Reviews
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2016· 1 entry
Artnet: Auguste Rodin and Rainer Maria Rilke Had a Strange, Moody Friendship
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2009· 2 entries
The Nation: Angels to Radios: On Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Telegraph: A special translation of Rainer Maria Rilke released recently
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2006· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome: The Correspondence
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1976· 1 entry
“Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction”
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1950· 1 entry
Her Correspondence in Verse with Rilke was published and received much praise
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1929· 1 entry
Writer Franz Xaver Kappus (1883–1966) published a collection of ten letters that (then between 27–32 year old) Rilke had written to him over the course of 6 years, beginning when Kappus was a 19-year-old officer cadet st
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1926· 4 entries
Died 1926-12-29.
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“Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.”
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“Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.”
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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
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1924· 1 entry
Erika Mitterer began writing poems to Rilke, who wrote back with approximately 50 poems of his own and called her verse a Herzlandschaft (landscape of the heart)
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1922· 1 entry
Between February 2 and 5, he completed the first section of 26 sonnets
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1917· 1 entry
As well as the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919
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1913· 1 entry
And 1915, Rilke did not return to the work until a few years after the war ended
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1912· 2 entries
Began the poem cycle called the Duino Elegies, which would remain unfinished for a decade because of a long-lasting creativity crisis
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While a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis (1855–1934) at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriatic Sea
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1910· 1 entry
During which he wrote several poems inspired by the surrounding landscape
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1906· 1 entry
At Rodin's studio in Meudon, Rilke met Sidonie Nádherná of Borutín
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1900· 1 entry
Rilke stayed at the artists' colony at Worpswede
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1898· 1 entry
Rilke undertook a journey of several weeks to Italy
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1896· 1 entry
Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1896).
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1895· 1 entry
Studied at German University in Prague (1895).
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-12-04.
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