Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s
58 Hermlin, however,
claimed
a strong personal affinity with Trakl, stating retrospectively that his 'name was, with few others, always central to my thinking and feeling, even though life has led me in a direction that is appar- ently far removed from the world expressed in his poetry'.