Anna Maria Achenrainer

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Grave of Anna Maria Achenrainer in the new cemetery Mühlau, Innsbruck

Anna Maria Achenrainer (born July 5, 1909 in Pfunds ; † January 14, 1972 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian writer who mainly dealt with the history and landscape of Tyrol .

Life

Anna Maria Achenrainer grew up in the Scharnitz orphanage after her father, a farrier and cart blacksmith, died in the First World War . In 1926 she attended the teacher training college in Innsbruck, where Brother Willram was her first literary sponsor. From 1929 she published her first short stories and poems, including in the Tiroler Volksbote , for which she was responsible for the women's page.

In 1951 she was a founding member of the Turmbund , an Innsbruck society for the promotion of literary and artistic talents that still exists today, and worked for the first Austrian Youth Culture Weeks. Anna Maria Achenrainer was in contact with numerous authors from the 1950s and 1960s (including Felix Braun and Erika Burkart ). She received the recognition award in 1950 when she was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Literature for her first volume of poetry. From 1969 to 1972 she was co-editor of the literary yearbook Wort im Gebirge, which Josef Leitgeb co-founded in 1949 . Literature from Tyrol .

Anna Maria Achenrainer died in 1972. Her grave in the Mühlauer Friedhof is adorned with a forged plant, on the leaves of which are the titles of the author's poetry and prose volumes.

plant

As a poet, Anna Maria Achenrainer was one of the representative cultural public in Tyrol in the post-war period. Her poetry can be assigned to the natural magic school in the successor to Wilhelm Lehmann . Anna Maria Achenrainer got her suggestions mainly from the Tyrolean mountain landscape, but also from Indian and ancient Egyptian mythology ( The twelve-petalled lotus ), from journeys ( southern exit : poetry cycle about ancient and contemporary Italy ), religion ( night thoughts : poetry cycle about Augustine ) and of history ( The winged light : sonnets on the Olympic Games from antiquity to the present).

Similar to Erika Burkart , Achenrainer conveys a feeling of nature in her poems, in which ideas of a mythical prehistory are combined with the reflection of one's own soul space. Many of her poems thrive on images of nature and landscapes that contrast pessimism about progress with a romanticized view of the rural world. The loss of an immediate sense of nature caused by technology and progress evokes the melancholy longing for an intact, intact world - a world that is able to express the inner landscape of the lyrical self. With her poetry Anna Maria Achenrainer stood at the end of a lyrical tradition, from which developments within the language-critical and experimental poetry of the sixties stood out more and more.

Awards

Works

  • Appassionata. Poems. Inn, Innsbruck 1950.
  • The twelve-petalled lotus. Poems. Egger, Imst 1957.
  • The green crystal. Poems. With linocuts by Margarethe Krieger . S. Gideon , Giessen 1960.
  • The compass rose. Poems. Rohrer, Vienna / Innsbruck 1962.
  • The winged light. Poems. With reed pen drawings by Rudolf Kreuzer . Wagner, Innsbruck 1963.
  • Portraits of women from Tyrol. 21 biographies. Wagner, Innsbruck 1964.
  • Horizons of hope. Poems. Introduced and selected by Franz Hölbing. Stiasny, Graz 1966.
  • Praise to the dark and the light. Poems. ÖVA, Vienna 1968.
  • Time of the sundials. A yearbook. Karlsruher Bote, Karlsruhe 1969.
  • Antonia van Mer. Story. ÖVA, Vienna 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography and photos

literature

  • German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual. 3rd, completely revised edition. Edited by Wilhelm Kosch (welcoming), Hubert Herkommer and Konrad Feilchenfeldt . Francke, Bern and Munich, 1968 Volume 1, p. 7.
  • Elisabeth Pfurtscheller: Anna Maria Achenrainer (1909–1972). The position of the poet in the Tyrolean literary and cultural scene of the 50s and 60s, shown on the basis of her estate. University of Innsbruck, 2006.
  • Paul Wimmer: Guide through the literature of Tyrol since 1945. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1978, p. 22ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Achenrainer, Anna Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfunds
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1972
Place of death innsbruck