Friederike Mayröcker
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Friederike Mayröcker is an Austria
n poet
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She started writing as a 15 year old. In 1946 she published her first works in the journal Plan.
Friederike Mayröcker is recognized as one of the most important contemporary Austrian poets. She also had success with radio plays. Four of them she wrote together with Ernst Jandl
, with whom she lived together from 1954 until his death in 2000.
Mayröcker describes her working process as follows:
"I live in pictures. I see everything in pictures, my complete past, memories are pictures. I transform pictures into language by climbing into the picture. I walk into it until it becomes language."
with Ernst Jandl:
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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Life
From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old. In 1946 she published her first works in the journal Plan.
Friederike Mayröcker is recognized as one of the most important contemporary Austrian poets. She also had success with radio plays. Four of them she wrote together with Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.- Poetry :Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" in 1952....
, with whom she lived together from 1954 until his death in 2000.
Mayröcker describes her working process as follows:
"I live in pictures. I see everything in pictures, my complete past, memories are pictures. I transform pictures into language by climbing into the picture. I walk into it until it becomes language."
Works
- Gesammelte Prosa 1949-2001 (collected prose) ed. by Klaus Reichert, 5 volumes, Frankfurt/Main 2001
- Magische Blätter I-V (magic pages I-V), Frankfurt/Main 2001
- Requiem für Ernst Jandl (requiem for Ernst Jandl), Frankfurt/Main 2001
- Mein Arbeitstirol - Gedichte 1996-2001 (my working Tyrol – poems), Frankfurt/Main 2003
- Die kommunizierenden Gefäße (the communicating vessels) Frankfurt/Main 2003
- Sinclair Sofokles der Baby-Saurier (Sinclair Sofokles the baby-dinosaur) with coloured illustrations by Angelika Kaufmann, St. Pölten 2004
- Gesammelte Gedichte 1939-2003 (collected poems) ed. by Marcel BeyerMarcel BeyerMarcel Beyer is a German writer.-Life:Marcel Beyer grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and Literary studies at the University of Siegen; in 1992 he obtained a Magister degree with a work on Friederike Mayröcker. Since 1987 he has...
, Frankfurt/Main 2005 - Und ich schüttelte einen Liebling (and I shook a darling), Frankfurt/Main 2005
radio plays
- Die Umarmung, nach Picasso (the embracement, after Picasso)
- Repetitionen, nach Max Ernst (repetitions, after Max Ernst)
- Schubertnotizen oder das unbestechliche Muster der Ekstase (Schubert-memos or the incorrupt model of ecstasy)
- Arie auf tönernen Füßen (aria on feet of clay)
- Das zu Sehende, das zu Hörende (the to be seen, the to be heard) (awarded with the ORFORF (broadcaster)Österreichischer Rundfunk, ORF, is the Austrian national public service broadcaster.Funded from a combination of a television licence fees and revenue from limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media...
radio play prize) - Die Kantate oder, Gottes Augenstern bist Du, (the cantata or, gods eye-star you are) music by Wolfgang von SchweinitzWolfgang von SchweinitzWolfgang von Schweinitz is a German composer of classical music.Schweinitz studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, from 1971 to 1973 with Gernot Klussmann and from 1973 to 1975 with György Ligeti. He continued his studies at the Stanford University with John Chowning...
(2003)
with Ernst Jandl:
- Der Gigant (the giant)
- Gemeinsame Kindheit (childhood together)
- Five Man Humanity / Fünf Mann Menschen
- Spaltungen (partitions)
Awards
- Georg Büchner PrizeGeorg Büchner PrizeThe Georg Büchner Prize is the most important literary prize of Germany. It was created in 1923 in memory of Georg Büchner and was only given to artists who came from or were closely tied to Büchner's home of Hesse...
2001 - America Awards Prize 1997
- Erich Fried PrizeErich Fried PrizeThe Erich Fried Prize is a literary prize in honour of the Austrian poet Erich Fried, and is awarded annually by the International Erich Fried Association for Literature and Language, based in Vienna. The value of the prize, endowed by the office of the Chancellor of Austria, is 14,600 euros...
1995 - Roswitha PrizeRoswitha PrizeThe Roswitha Prize is the oldest German language prize for literature that is given solely to women.The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim....
1982 - Anton Wildgans PrizeAnton Wildgans PrizeThe Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry is a literary award that was endowed in 1962 by the Federation of Austrian Industry. The prize is worth 10,000 Euro and is granted by an independent jury to a young or middle-aged writer of Austrian citizenship....
1981 - Georg Trakl Prize 1977
Literature
- Theo BreuerTheo BreuerTheo Breuer is a German poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher.-Life and work:...
: „Friederike Mayröcker, usw.“, in: T.B., Aus dem Hinterland. Lyrik nach 2000, Edition YE, Sistig/Eifel 2005 - Renate Kühn (Ed.): Friederike Mayröcker oder Das innere des Sehens, studies about poetry, radio play and prose, Bielefeld 2002
- Inge Arteel / Heidy M. Müller (Ed.): Rupfen in fremden Gärten - Intertextualität im Schreiben Friederike Mayröckers, Bielefeld 2002
- Edith A. Kunz: Verwandlungen - Zur Poetologie des Übergangs in der späten Prosa Friederike Mayröckers, Göttingen 2004
- Ralf B. Korte / Elisabeth Hödl: FM dj (reading reise durch die nacht). Ein elektronischer Briefroman. 2004
- Martin A. Hainz: Schwarze Milch zu schreiben. Paul Celan und Friederike Mayröcker. In: Weimarer Beiträge, No. 52·1, 2006, p. 5-19
- Leo Truchlar: Wozu lese und schreibe ich? Notizen aus Anlaß meiner Lektüren von Adrienne Rich und Friederike Mayröcker. - In: Leo Truchlar, Über Literatur und andere Künste, Wien 2000, p. 17ff.
- Inge Arteel: „gefaltet, entfaltet“. Strategien der Subjektwerdung in Friederike Mayröckers Prosa 1988-1998. Bielefeld 2007.