100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1997 - 5.50 Shilling

Theodor Kramer was born on 1 January 1897 in Niederhollabrunn, the son of a Jewish community doctor. He learned from childhood the fate of the marginalized, as a doctor child in the midst of a peasant community and as a member of one in this unfamiliar religion. Those living on the sidelines, the propertyless, the hapless, the day laborers and migrant workers had his eyes fixed for a lifetime. After the First World War, he published the volume "We lay in Wolhynia in the quagmire," in which the war is represented by the eyes of the simple soldier of the mass army, without romance, without heroism, without enthusiasm: the event as skill. He documented his own fate after the invasion of Hitler in Austria with poems in which he describes the self-experienced humiliation and endangerment of the National Socialist rule. Just before the beginning of the Second World War, he managed to leave for England. There he lived "banished from Austria, sick and lonely, the image of the homeland always in front of his eyes and incessantly putting it into words". Theodor Kramer died on April 3, 1958 in Vienna. The brand image shows a portrait of Theodor Kramer.