Walter Rheiner

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Walter Rheiner (18 March 1895 – 12 June 1925; born Walter Heinrich Schnorrenberg in Cologne, Germany) was a writer and poet associated with the German post-expressionists.^[1]

In 1895, Walter Rheiner was born in Cologne, Germany, to his mother, Ernestine Schnorrenberg, and his father.^[2]

Rheiner married^[when?] Amalie Friederike Schnorrenberg, whom he affectionately called 'Fo'^[why?]. They divorced in 1925.

During World War I (ca 1914 - 1918), Rheiner fought on the Eastern Front.^[3]

Rheiner published^[when?] poems and prose works throughout his life.^{[clarification needed]} His work drew comparisons to contemporaries such as Georg Trakl and Franz Kafka. Rheiner's greatest period of literary output was from 1916 to 1920.^[2]

One of Rheiner's most fertile artistic relationships was with the German expressionist painter Conrad Felixmüller. Through connections due to this relationship, Rheiner's work was able to be published. Felixmüller illustrated Rheiner's novella.^{[citation needed]}

In his last five years, from 1920 to his death in 1925, Rheiner's poetic output decreased. This has been attributed to factors such as poverty and drug addiction.^[2]

Rheiner is often-remembered for his tragic association with substance abuse. This is exemplified in his major prose work Kokain (cocaine). Kokain was written in the summer of 1918^[4] and serves as a typical example of how autobiographical themes run through Rheiner's work. He had become addicted to cocaine in 1915 during the war.^[5]

In 1925, Rheiner died. His death was attributed to heavy use of morphine.^{[citation needed]}

Following Rheiner's death, Felixmüller honoured his friend with a well-known portrait, 'Der Tod des Dichters Walter Rheiner'.^{[citation needed]}

• Kokain, novella, 1918.
• Das schmerzliche Meer, poems, 1918.
• Der bunte Tag poems, 1919.

• Millington, Richard H. (2012). Snow from Broken Eyes: Cocaine in the Lives and Works of Three Expressionist Poets. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783034310697.

• "Death of the Poet Walter Rheiner (Der Tod des Dichters Walter Rheiner) by Conrad Felixmüller".