Georg Britting


Georg Britting was a German poet, short story writer, and essayist.

Life

Britting spent his early years in Regensburg. His career as a writer began in 1911, when be began publishing poems, short stories, and articles about the theater. He joined the army in 1914 and was heavily wounded in World War 1.
After World War 1, Britting became a critic for the Neuen Donau-Post. He and Josef Achmann began a publication called Die Sichel, but in 1921 its publication was halted, and the pair moved to Munich. During the reign of the Nazis, his stories were more popular than his plays. His poems and short stories were often published in Das Innere Reich. His most popular story today is »Brudermord im Altwasser«, engl. “Fratricide in the Backwater”.
He married his wife, actress Ingeborg Fröhlich, in 1946, and they moved to Sant-Anna-Platz in Munich, where he died in 1964.