The Phenomenon of Georg Trakl's Poetry

Lviv Television, 2004. The episode of the program "Literary Lviv" is dedicated to the German-speaking poet Georg Trakl and the tradition of translating his work into Ukrainian.

On the video: a recitation of Trakl's poetry in German, Ukrainian editions of poetry, the collection "Sebastian's Dreams"; artists reflect on the perception of poetry; comments by the translator of Georg Trakl's poetry into Ukrainian, Tymofii Havryliv.

Comments: writer, translator Tymofii Havryliv; sculptor Mykola Bunyk; cultural attaché of the Austrian Embassy, ​​Andreas Wenninger.

Reference: Georg Trakl is one of the key poets of German-language expressionism, whose poetry is distinguished by hermetic imagery, symbolic concentration, tragic worldview, and consistent thematization of death, decline, and the experience of World War I. In Ukrainian culture, Trakl's reception has been shaped primarily by the translations of Petro Marusyk and Tymofii Havryliv, and since the 2010s by the translation and interdisciplinary projects of Maksym Solodovnyk.