![]() In Florence, where he spent some months in 1898, Rilke wrote: ". In Munich he met the Russian intellectual Lou Andreas-Salome, an older woman, who influenced him deeply. Rilke continued his studies at the universities of Prague, Munich, and Berlin.Īs a poet Rilke made his debut at the age of nineteen with Leben und Lieder (1894), written in the conventional style of Heinrich Heine. At the military academy Rilke did not enjoy his stay, and was sent to a business school in Linz. His militarily inclined Father sent him at ten yesrs old to the military academies of St. Rilke's parents separated when he was nine. She forced him to wear girl's clothes until he was aged five - thus compensating for the earlier loss of a baby daughter. ![]() ![]() A crucial fact in Rilke's life was that his mother called him Sophia. Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague as the son of Josef Rilke, a railway official and the former Sophie Entz. After these books, Rilke had published his major works, believing that he had done his best as a writer. ![]() He created the 'object poem' as an attempt to describe with utmost clarity physical objects, the 'silence of their concentrated reality.' He became famous with such works as Duineser Elegien and Die Sonette an Orpheus. Rilke was considered one of the greatest German lyric poets of his day. ![]()
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