Wandering the City Trails

Z J GALOS

Born in Eastern Austria, close to the Hungarian border, he witnessed as a young man the horrors of a nation's suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished his education in Vienna and sailed for the Cape of Africa.
Meeting a varied facet of people and cultures, working as a draughtsman in an engineering office, as an architect for a cultural center, as a coordinator of craftsmen and professionals traveling throughout Southern Africa.
During a trip to Lesotho, a native artist showed him rock paintings with their stark palimpsest outlines and with typified movements of animals and humans.
During a visit to Greece, he was accepted into a circle of artists and poets. A friend introduced him to the works of famous Greek poets.
In South Africa, he joined the writing and poetry classes of Writers Write. It was to open the floodgates of his creativity.
He settled 2013/14 in Klosterneuburg-Weidling. Poet Nikolaus Lenau is buried here. Franz Kafka has visited here. Their writings will always be an inspiration.