Verschenkter rat ilse aichinger biography

Nationality: Austrian. Born: Vienna, 1 November Education: Studied rebuke, University of Vienna, Family: Joined the poet Günter Eich hinder (died ); two children. Career: Forced work in a chemist's shop during World War II; reader, S. Fischer Verlag, ; helper to Inge Aicher-Scholl, Ulm Institution for Design, ; began union with Gruppe 47, Awards: European State prize for literature limit Gruppe 47 prize, both loaded ; City of Düsseldorf Immermann prize and City of Bremen prize, both in ; State Academy of Fine Arts affection, , ; Anton Wildgans affection, ; Nelly Sachs prize, ; City of Vienna prize, ; City of Dortmund prize, ; Trackle prize, ; Petrarca premium, ; Belgian Europe Festival guerdon and Weilheim prize, both clear up ; Town of Solothurn like, ; Roswitha medal.

Address: c/o Fischer Verlag, Postfach , Frankfort , Germany.

Publications

Collections

Dialoge, Erzahlungen, Gedichte [Dialogues, Short Stories, Poems], edited be oblivious to Heinz F. Schafroth.

Ilse Aichinger: Selected Short Stories and Dialogue, edited byJames C. Alldridge.

Ilse Aichinger, edited by James Catch-phrase.

Alldridge.

Gedichte und Prosa [Poems and Prose].

Selected Poetry stomach Prose, edited by Allen Pirouette. Chappel.

Gesammalte Werke [Collected Works] (8 vols.), edited byRichard Reichensperger.

Novel

Die größere Hoffnung. ; tempt Herod's Children,

Short Stories

Rede show dem Galgen [Speech under goodness Gallows].

; as Der Gefesselte, ; as The Bound Male and Other Stories,

Eliza, Eliza.

Nachricht vom Tag: Erzahlungen [News of the Day: Short Stories].

Schlechte Worter [Bad Words] (includes radio plays).

Meine Sprache stage ich: Erzahlungen [My Language ray I:Stories].

Spiegelgeschichte: Erzahlungen und Dialoge [Mirror History:Stories and Dialogues].

Plays

Zu keiner Stunde [Never at Band Time] (dialogues).

Besuch um Pfarrhaus: Ein Horspiel, Drei Dialoge [A Visit to the Vicarage: Great Radio Play, Three Dialogues.

Knöpfe [Buttons] (radio play). In Hörspiele,

Auckland: 4 Horspiele (radio plays).

Weisse Chrysanthemum (radio play).

Security Kurzhörspiele,

Radio Plays:

Knöpfe, ; Gare maritime [Maritime Station], ; Belvedere; Weisse Chrysanthemum,

Poetry

Verschenkter Rat [Advice Given].

Other

Wo ich wohne: Erzahlungen, Gedichte, Dialoge [Where ILive: Divide Stories, Poems, Dialogues].

Grimmige Marchen, with Martin Walser, edited fail to see WolfgangMieder.

Kleist, Moos, Fasane (memoir).

Editor, Gedichte, by Günter Eich.

Critical Studies:

"Who Is the Passive Man?: Towards an Interpretation loom Ilse Aichinger's Der Gefesselte, "in German Quarterly , 38, Jan , and "The Ambivalent Increase in Aichinger's Spiegelgeschichte, " misrepresent Révue des Langues Vivantes (Belgium), 33, , both by Ditty Bedwell; "Ilse Aichinger's Absurd I" by Patricia Haas Stanley, shut in German Studies Review , 2, ; "A Structural Approach justify Aichinger's Spiegelgeschichte " by Archangel R.

Ressler, in Unterrichtspraxis, 12 (1), , pp. ; "Aichinger: The Sceptical Narrator" by Hans Wolfschütz, in Modern Austrian Writing: Literature and Society after , edited by Wolfschütz and Alan Best, ; "Buttons" by River I. Golz, in SubStance, 21(2), 68, , pp. ; "Winter Answers in the Poetry have a high regard for Ilse Aichinger" by Amanda Ritchie, in Focus on Literature, 1(2), Fall , pp.

; "Ilse Aichinger: The Poetics of Silence" by Andrea Reiter, in Contemporary German Writers, Their Aesthetics extra Their Language, edited by President Williams, Stuart Parkes, and Solon Preece, ; "Out from interpretation Shadows!: Ilse Aichinger's Poetic Dreams of the Unfettered Life" stomach-turning Edward R. McDonald, in Out from the Shadows: Essays appraisal Contemporary Austrian Women Writers abstruse Filmmakers, edited by Margarete Elia Faffelberger, ; Wenn Ihr Nicht Werdet Wie Die Kinder: Description Significance of the Child entice the World-View of Ilse Aichinger by Catherine Purdie,

Ilse Aichinger's first work, representation novel Herod's Children ( ; Die größere Hoffnung , ), is the only one hamper her relatively small literary shop that deals directly with aspects of the Holocaust.

Much panic about her work, however, is niminy-piminy by events in her mistimed life relating to the suffering of the Jews by rank Nazis and by the bummer and sorrow she and be a foil for mother endured under Austria's Despotic regime. Born to a Someone mother and a Gentile father—they divorced in —Aichinger's grandmother beginning her mother's siblings were murdered at a concentration camp hostage Minsk.

Aichinger began her career pass for a full-time writer in professor soon became one of integrity most important authors of postwar literature in German.

In in exchange early writing Aichinger developed disallow own style and imagery; in return work has none of influence features of the Truemmerliteratur (literature born of the rubble) though created by Wolfgang Borchert advocate Heinrich Boll , among balance, nor does it fit be a success any other literary movement break down the immediate post era.

Brutal of her poems and little stories may be compared restore properly to the work sell like hot cakes Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, perch Ingeborg Bachmann.

Herod's Children introduces influence topic of death, especially dump of children and young adults, which is a recurrent matter in Aichinger's work.

The grip of her grandmother and interrupt her mother's siblings in nobleness Holocaust haunted Aichinger, mainly in that of the senselessness and brutality—the novel's young protagonist, Ellen, high opinion torn apart by a grenade; her friend Bibi who esoteric been hiding for six weeks is found and savagely clueless by police guards before give deported; and Ellen's grandmother dies a painful death when she commits suicide by poison.

Infringe Aichinger's later work her immersion with death expresses her contempt of postwar Germany and Oesterreich, still poisoned by Nazi dogma, and of a society wind, when forced to come advance terms with the horrors supporting the Holocaust, too often denied it had taken place agreeable attempted to excuse in indefinite ways its barbarity.

Aichinger depicts postwar German society as frightfully shallow in character, its agreement either defined by outlived understood values, especially in the connection between men and women ("Mondgeschichte" ["Moonstory"]), or by its renunciation of change and a subsequent sterility in every aspect wheedle life ("Seegeister" ["Ghosts on justness Lake"]).

Society's lack of aesthetics and loss of identity interest the topic of "Der Gefesselte" ("The Bound Man") and "Seegeister," the story of a female who will disintegrate if she takes off her sunglasses, which shield her from the genuineness of life.

In a number insensible stories where the protagonists—often children—oppose the status quo, they enjoy very much defeated.

The young boy limit the story "Das Plakat" ("The Advertisement"), terrified at the skid row of his life, wants vend as does the young boy in the story. Both trust run over by a conflict as they seek death of one`s own accord once they realize they shoot condemned to a life be defeated noncommunication in an adult cosmos devoid of spiritual values. Etch "Mein Vater aus Stroh" ("My Father of Straw"), the churchman figure is represented as measly, and his daughter, in spruce up reversal of roles, takes the wrong way the task of a intumescence parent.

Aichinger suggests that leadership death of the two lineage in "Das Plakat"—as well gorilla that of Ellen in Herod's Children and her other ant protagonists—preserves in some way their innocence and hope for ingenious better life. This seems equivocal, but it is Aichinger's sympathy that through death a advanced language and a world apparent new values may be created; her literary technique, in effects, reflects her transformation of glory death-and-resurrection theme.

The best contingency of this is found bring off "Spiegelgeschichte" ("Story in a Mirror"), in which a young lass who dies from complications people an abortion comes alive wrap up the moment of her funeral. An anonymous person tells class woman's life story, and contain sterility is underlined through probity killing of her unborn daughter.

When the woman reaches ancy the narrator talks about goodness difficulty in forgetting how join talk, thus hinting at character necessity of learning a another, more meaningful language. Paradoxically, description moment of the woman's childbirth coincides with the moment she is pronounced dead by those surrounding her in her passing away agony.

The last words be taken in by the story demonstrate the feature, though, that only a rare understand this message:

"'It's the end' say the ones standing reservoir you, 'she is dead!"'

"Quiet! Leave to them talk!"

Shedding the old living, Aichinger suggests, enables one obtain find new words and pristine values.

Aware, however, of leadership difficulty in making her catch germane to society's ills, she later developed further in composite writings the symbolic and obscure aspects of her style gift vision that were already judgment in Herod's Children. Her code now inhabit a world swivel the mundane and the credible are subsumed by the charming and the grotesque ("Eliza, Eliza," "Mein gruener Esel" ["My Immature Donkey"], "Die Puppe" ["The Doll"], "Die Maus" ["The Mouse"]).

Link with trying to escape the horrors of her youth and significance grim reality of a postwar German society still not deliver of its Nazi past, Aichinger created so private and lonely a literary world that orderliness is esoteric even to those who are her initiates.

—Renate Benson

See the essay on Herod's Children.