(Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2000) Kreutzer, Gert
This article gives a summary of the life and the work of
the Icelandic poet Johann Jonsson (1896-1932), who had lived in
Leipzig since 1921 and also died there. To this end, published and
unpublished letters by the poet are evaluated on a large scale. In
the appendix, two of his most important works, the poem
“SoknuSur” and the prose fragment “Nott i Riesental”, are
presented in a German translation.