Gerhard Fritsch
Gerhard Fritsch was an Austrian novelist and poet. He achieved considerable success with his first novel Moos auf den Steinen. It was later adapted into a film. Fritsch's second novel, Fasching 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.