Georg Trakl (1887-1914) not only figure in his poetry the essential trends so only after his early death became known in the Germanic world Expressionismus, poetic movement certainly more important than has occurred in the West after romanticism: embodies especially so overwhelming awareness of the end, the vision of the bloodiest of the sunsets on the threshold of this century lighting from the ravages of war for the first time worldwide. One could therefore say that the great Austrian poet is a poet in the most classic sense of the term.