{{Short description|Austrian novelist and poet (1924–1969)}} '''Gerhard Fritsch''' (28 March 1924 – 22 March 1969) was an Austrian novelist and poet.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6KhruT234IEC ''Modern Austrian Literature Through the Lens of Adaptation'']</ref> He achieved considerable success with his first novel ''Moos auf den Steinen'' (''Moss on the Stones''). It was later adapted into a film. Fritsch's second novel, ''Fasching'' (''Carnival'') was published in 1969, the year in which he committed suicide.
In 1961, he translated W. H. Auden's long poem ''For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio'' into German under the title ''Hier und jetzt. Ein Weihnachtsoratorium''.<ref>Auden, W. H. ''Hier und jetzt. Ein Weihnachtsoratorium.'' Translated by Gerhard Fritsch, Otto Müller, 1961.</ref>
==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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