Ernst Herbeck [SEP] place of birth
Ernst Herbeck
Ernst Herbeck (October 9, 1920, Stockerau, Lower Austria – September 11, 1991) was an Austrian poet. In 1940, at the age of 20, Herbeck was committed to the national mental hospital in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) where he spent almost his entire life, writing thousands of poems, until his death on 11 September 1991.
Life.
Herbeck grew up in Stockerau, Lower Austria, where at the age of 20 whilst working as an unskilled worker in a munitions factory,
Twelve Poems by Ernst Herbeck, Translated by Gary Sullivan
- Ernst Herbeck blog with poems in German and in English translation by Gary Sullivan
- Herbecks Versprechen electronic sound performance by Karlheinz Essl
- Robin Pape, Burkhart Brückner: Biography of Ernst Herbeck in: Biographical Archive of Psychiatry (BIAPSY), 2015.