Georg Maurer

Who is Georg Maurer?

Georg Maurer was a German poet, essayist, and translator. He wrote under the pseudonyms Juventus, murus, and Johann Weilau.

The son of a teacher, he was born in Reghin, Transylvania, and grew up there before moving to Germany in 1926. He studied art history, Germanistics and philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin until 1932. He was a soldier during the Second World War. From 1955 he was a lecturer, then a professor at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig, where he had great influence on the poets of the Saxon School. He died in Potsdam and was buried in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig.