HOLZ, hṓlts, Arno (1863—). A German poet and critic, born at Rastenburg. Before he was nineteen he was engaged in journalism, and in 1882 published a volume of poems, Klinginsherz, which won the Augsburg Schiller Prize. In a second volume, Deutsche Weisen (1884), written with Jerschke, and in the Buch der Zeit (1885 and 1892), his extremely modern tendency appears, and the attention to details and the attempt at photographic realism is carried even further in Neue Gleise (1892), in which he collaborated with Johannes Schlaf. His realistic theory is further illustrated in the plays Socialaristokraten (1896) and Die Blechschmiede (1902), the latter a satiric dialogue, and is defended by Holz in Die Kunst (1891 et seq.), and Revolution der Lyrik (1899).