Anna Sebastian

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Frieda Benedikt (born November 3, 1916 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died April 3, 1953 in Paris ) - better known by her pseudonym Anna Sebastian , married Frieda Widholm - was an English-language writer .

Life

She came from an Austrian-Jewish journalist family and was the second of four daughters of Ernst Benedikt (1882–1973) and Irma von Rosen.

After Austria's annexation in 1938, Benedikt was driven into exile and she lived in England until 1946, married in Sweden until 1952 and finally in France. Three novels were published before she died of glandular cancer at the age of 36.

At the age of 21 in Vienna, Benedikt met Elias Canetti , whose novel Die Blendung she held in high esteem. After that, a professional as well as personal relationship developed that lasted until Benedict's death. Canetti himself describes aspects of the development and continuation of this relationship in Das Augenspiel und Party im Blitz , but Sven Hanuschek's Canetti biography offers a more complete as well as a more balanced representation of this complicated relationship. Benedict considered herself his "pupil" and her three novels published by Jonathan Cape are dedicated to Canetti. Her work was received mostly positively by the English critics. She was buried at the Grinzing cemetery .

Works

  • Let Thy Moon Arise (novel; translated from German into English by Sebastian himself. Only edition by Jonathan Cape, London, 1944)
  • The monster. Novel; EA at Jonathan Cape, London 1944; french Edition Le Monstre , Calmann-Levy, Paris 1946; Swedish edition Monstret , Albert Bonniers, Stockholm 1951
    • In German: Anna Sebastian, Friedl (sic!) Benedikt; Translated by Christel Wiemken; Epilogue Susanne Ovadia: The Monster. Novel. Ed. Memoria, Hürth 2004 ISBN 3930353210
  • People from My Journal (contribution in The Windmill Vol 1, No 3, Heinemann, London, 1946)
  • The Dreams. Novel. Jonathan Cape, London 1950

literature

  • Stevie Smith: The Moon in the River in: Time and Tide , March 4, 1944
  • Phillip Henderson: A New Talent in: Time and Tide , February 9, 1950, p. 261
  • Angus Wilson : New Novels in: The Listener , February 9, 1950, p. 261
  • Francis Wyndham: New Novels in: The Observer , February 12, 1950
  • Peter J. Conradi: Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch . WW Norton, New York 2001. ISBN 0-393-32401-X pbk
  • Susanne Ovadia: Epilogue to Das Monster , Memoria, Hürth 2004. ISBN 3-930353-21-0 , pp. 319–328
  • Sven Hanuschek: Elias Canetti. Biography. Carl Hanser, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-446-20584-5
    • dsb .: Review of the novel "Das Monster" online ; first FRI , March 3, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source (PDF; 417 kB)
  2. ↑ Numbers according to web source "Literaturepochen"
  3. ↑ Frieda Widholm in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
  4. ^ Sister of Frieda Benedikt
personal data
SURNAME Sebastian, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benedikt, Frieda (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, English language
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1953
Place of death Paris