About
German poet, translator, and editor whose best- known works include Algabal and Das neue Reich.
Before fame
He lived in Paris for a time and published his first poems in the 1890s.
Trivia
He thought of himself as the spiritual leader of a new society ruled by artists and intellectuals.
Family life
He was a celibate homosexual.
Associated with
He was an acquaintance of French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine.
