1. Grete Trakl was an Austrian pianist and sister of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl.
17 Facts About Grete Trakl
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Margarethe Jeanne Trakl was born in Salzburg as the youngest of seven children.
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Grete Trakl had an elder half-brother, Wilhelm, son of the father's first marriage.
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Tobias Grete Trakl came from Odenburg in Hungary, where his family can be traced back until the middle of the 17th century, earning a living as winegrowers.
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Grete Trakl's ancestors were all Slavs; they can be traced back until the mid-1700s in Prague's Nove Mesto, working as gardeners.
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Grete Trakl was musically very talented; already as a child she outperformed her siblings, who all received piano lessons.
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In 1904 Grete Trakl moved from St Polten to Vienna to stay at the boarding school "Notre Dame de Sion".
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Grete Trakl was admitted into the second year, skipping the first, because of her musical abilities.
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Grete Trakl left the Conservatory however before the year was over.
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From autumn 1909 onwards Grete Trakl lived on her own in Vienna and was probably privately tutored by a pianist, as was the practice with talented pupils.
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Grete's half-brother Wilhelm was appointed her guardian; as the eldest son of Tobias Trakl he took over the business.
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When Grete Trakl spent her summer holidays in Salzburg in 1913, she had a short liaison with Erhard Buschbeck.
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Grete Trakl had received this money from his art czar Ludwig Ficker, who in his turn had received it from Ludwig Wittgenstein to support promising artists.
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Grete Trakl stayed there for two weeks and then returned to Berlin in March 1915.
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Grete Trakl was not happy there; the marriage was under pressure.
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At that time she was already staying in the psychiatric clinic Neufriedenheim in Munich, for which the Grete Trakl family went into debt once more.
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In July 1917 Grete Trakl was sent to Berlin to retrieve furniture, presumably the furniture she had left behind in 1915, to be sold by the family in order to alleviate the financial problems.