Weltende (Jakob van Hoddis)

Weltende is a poem by the German poet Jakob van Hoddis, the anagrammatic pseudonym of Hans Davidsohn (1887-1942).^[1] 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.^[2] Van Hoddis was killed in 1942, most likely in the Sobibór extermination camp.^[3]