Gerhard Fritsch
Gerhard Fritsch (28 March 1924 – 22 March 1969) was an Austrian novelist and poet.[1] He won great success for his first novel Moos auf den Steinen (Moss on the Stones). This was later adapted into a film. Fritsch's second novel, 'Fasching' (Carnival) was published in 1969, the year in which Fritsch committed suicide.
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Further Reading
- Augustinus P. Dierick: “Politics, the Elegiac, and the Carnivalesque: Gerhard Fritsch’s Moos auf den Steinen and Fasching.” Seminar, 38:1 (February 2002).
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