The song "Das Veilchen" was written to a poem by a writer that died in what year?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( ; ] ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His works include epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist.
Weltende (Jakob van Hoddis) Weltende is a poem by the German poet Jakob van Hoddis, the anagrammatic pseudonym of Hans Davidsohn (1887-1942).The poem is, from its appearing until today, the most famous expressionistic one though its author has remained quite unknown for a long time, principally in the United States. Van Hoddis was killed in 1942, probably in the Sobibór extermination camp.