Who is August Stramm

August Stramm (29 July 1874 – 1 September 1915) was a German war poet and playwright who is considered the first of the expressionists. Stramm's radically experimental verse and his major influence on all subsequent German poetry has caused him to be compared to Ezra Pound, Guillaume Apollinaire, James Joyce, and T.S. Eliot. A reserve officer in the Imperial German Army, Stramm was called up to active service at the outbreak of World War I and was killed in action on the Eastern Front.

Jeremy Adler has called August Stramm one of, "the most innovative poets of the First World War."

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August Stramm was born in Münster, Westphalia, in 1874. His father had served in the Prussian Army and had been decorated for bravery during t...
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August Stramm Poems

  • Frost Fire
    Toes deaden.
    Breath smelts to lead.
    Hot needles dance in fingers.
    Backs turn to snails.Ears hum coffee. ...
  • Guard-duty
    A star frightens the steeple cross
    a horse gasps smoke
    iron clanks drowsily
    mists spread ...
  • War Grave
    Staffs flehen cross arms
    Writing zagt pale unknown
    Flowers impudent
    Dust shyly. ...
  • Wonder
    U Stands! U stands!
    And I
    And I
    I wing...
  • Wounds
    Earth under the helmet flowers
    Falling stars
    Grope through space.
    Roaring shudders...
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Top 10 most used topics by August Stramm

Space 2 Stand 2 Iron 2 Sleep 2 Time 2 Death 1 Coffee 1 War 1 Spirit 1 Wing 1


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Walter24911538: before a painting of arp’s or a poem by august stramm it is impossible to take time for contemplation and evaluation as one would before a canvas of derain’s or a poem by rilke
Walter24911538: before a painting of arp’s or a poem by august stramm it is impossible to take time for contemplation and evaluation as one would before a canvas of derain’s or a poem by rilke
War_poets: 1 september 1915 august stramm is killed in hand-to-hand combat near kobryn in modern-day belarus.
Lucylondon7: german ww1 soldier poet august stramm was killed on 1st september 1915
Blown_through: an attempt to beget a bastard child of haiku and the style of august stramm:
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