Hannelore Valencak

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Hannelore Valencak (born January 23, 1929 in Donawitz ; † April 9, 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and member of the board of the Austrian PEN. She published lyric texts, fantastic stories and numerous books for children and young people.

Live and act

She spent her childhood and youth in Kapfenberg in Styria . She studied physics in Graz , did her doctorate in 1955 and then worked as a metallurgist in the steel company Felten & Guilleaume in Kapfenberg. Oskar Kofler, her first husband, died in a traffic accident in 1959. In 1962 she married Viktor Mayer and moved with him to Vienna, where she worked as a patent clerk until 1975. Since then she has been a full-time writer and has lived in Vienna and Bad Vöslau .

In her texts she repeatedly shapes the change of time and level of consciousness. This includes her 1967 time jump novel Das Fenster zum Sommer , which originally appeared under the title Refuge Behind Time . This novel is the movie Summer Window by Hendrik Handloegten (2011) is based. Another novel with this theme is The Magic Diary .

Valencak was buried at Vienna's Südwestfriedhof (group 70, row 1, number 36). The Hannelore Valencak settlement in Kapfenberg is named after her.

Works

Tomb of Hannelore Valencak
  • Four young Kapfenbergers. Poem anthology. Graz et al. 1954.
  • Recrystallization studies on nickel-chromium and iron-nickel-chromium alloys. Düsseldorf 1956.
  • Noah's caves. Novel. Vienna 1961. New edition: Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2012, ISBN 978-3-7017-1582-4 .
  • We'll know tomorrow. Stories. Salzburg 1961.
  • A strange garden. Novel. Vienna 1964.
  • Just this one life. Poems. Vienna 1966.
  • Refuge behind time. Vienna 1967. New edition under the title: The window to summer. Zsolnay, Vienna 1977; Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2006, ISBN 3-7017-1448-7 .
  • Monday morning is not life. Youth book. Vienna 1970.
  • Forecourt of reality. Novel. Vienna 1972.
  • I am barbara. Youth book. Vienna Ueberreuter, 1974.
  • My difficult aunt. Youth book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1974.
  • Rain magic. Youth book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1976.
  • The promise of loyalty. Youth book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1978.
  • The magical diary. Zsolnay, Vienna 1981.
  • Hiking trails around Vienna. Hiking book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1982.
  • My day - my year. Poems. Zsolnay, Vienna 1983 (with Doris Mühringer)
  • My priceless sister. Youth book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1984.
  • Bettina and the iron promise. Youth book. Mödling 1989.

Awards

  • 1954: Recognition award of the Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry from the State of Styria
  • 1956: Art Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
  • 1956: Poetry Prize of the City of Graz
  • 1967: Austrian State Prize for Novels
  • 1963, 1964: Peter Rosegger Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria
  • 1966: Peter Rosegger Literature Prize of the Province of Styria
  • 1966, 1971: Theodor Körner Promotion Prize
  • 1968: Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature
  • 1975, 1977: Children's and Youth Book Awards from the City of Vienna
  • 1977: Austrian State Prize for Children's Books
  • 1978: Prix Amadé
  • 1981, 1983: Book awards from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts
  • 1982: Recognition award of the advancement award for children's and youth literature of the state of Styria

literature

  • Elisabeth Chvojka: Valencak, Hannelore. In: Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of German language. Edited by Walther Killy. Gütersloh u. Munich 1988, Vol. 11, p. 505.
  • Alexandra Erdinger: Female characters in selected novels by Hannelore Valencak. Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2011. ( Online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Markus Gauss: After the fall of mankind. Review. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 31, 2012, accessed on July 28, 2013.
  2. ^ Günter Kaindlstorfer: Meeting , Ö1 on March 25, 2012, accessed on July 28, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Valencak, Hannelore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kofler, Hannelore; Mayer, Hannelore; Kofler-Valencak, Hannelore; Mayer, Hannelore Josefine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Donawitz
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2004
Place of death Vienna