![]() ![]() He spent a brief period attending the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, but he soon left school and moved to Munich, where he became acquainted with other writers and started working seriously on his own writing. ![]() It was during this period that he wrote his first collection of poetry, Life and Songs, which was published in 1894. He lasted for five years at the school before leaving to attend trade school, from which he was expelled in 1892. In fact, he had such a hard time at military school that he later suggested that it was necessary for him to completely block out the memory of his experience there in order to make anything of himself as an artist. He detested his time there, as he was brutally bullied for his sensitivity. In 1886, at the age of 11, Rilke attended a military academy in the Austrian city of Sankt Pölten. As a result, she often treated Rilke as if he were the little girl she’d lost. Rilke had a somewhat strained relationship with his mother, who was in mourning during his childhood because her daughter had died in infancy before Rilke was born. His father worked for the railroad after a failed stint in the military. Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875. ![]()
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