From the age of 10, he attended the Königliches Alte Gymnasium

(today Melanchthon Grammar School), 1910-1919.

(The 1919 Abitur essay topic:

How can the poet benefit his people in times of tribulation and humiliation?

"German elaboration" for the school-leaving examination at the Altes Gymnasium Nuremberg 1919)

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Inscription:

I am a walker

I walked through a hundred towns

Always the same street,

My street,

I walk as if I know where to go,

Impatient though I arrive

Where I don't want to go (...)

(Opening lines from the poem: Roma aeterna. In: Akzente issue 5, 1975, pp. 394-395)