Barbara Frischmuth

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Barbara Frischmuth (2013)

Barbara Frischmuth (born July 5, 1941 in Altaussee , Salzkammergut ) is an Austrian writer and translator .

Life

Book Week in Vienna 1974, from left to right: Alfred Hrdlicka , Ernst Jandl , Friederike Mayröcker and Barbara Frischmuth

Barbara Frischmuth was born in Altaussee as the daughter of the hotelier Anton Frischmuth, who died in Russia during World War II in 1943 , and his wife Maria, née Maria. Schmidt born. After his father's death, his widow continued to run the hotel until 1956, when he married again.

Barbara spent her childhood in Altaussee, attended grammar schools in Gmunden and Bad Aussee and later because of a move the Pestalozzi grammar school in Graz , where she also graduated. At the Karl-Franzens University studied Frischmuth from autumn 1959 on interpreting Institute Turkish , English , and later Hungarian . In 1960/61 she was on a scholarship at the Ataturk University in Erzurum . In 1964, Frischmuth moved to Vienna , where she began studying Turkish , Iranian and Islamic studies .

In the fall of 1966, she broke off her studies and became a full-time writer and translator. Already during her student days she published poems and in 1962 became a member of what later became known as the “ Graz Group ”. She took part in readings and came into contact with Forum Stadtpark , of which she was appointed a founding member during her time in Erzurum. Several stays abroad took her to Turkey, Hungary, Egypt, England, China, Japan and the USA, where she lectured at Oberlin College in Ohio and at Washington University in St. Louis .

Today the author lives in Altaussee. There is also her garden, which provides the material for her three garden story books so far. She works as a writer, translator and columnist. Barbara Frischmuth is also the niece of Edith Hauer-Frischmuth , whose life story she incorporated into her work Einander Kind , with whom she, however, had a family relationship.

Awards and honors

Works

Novels, short stories

  • The monastery school . Frankfurt / Main 1968
  • Stanek stories . Berlin 1969
  • Days and years. Sentences about the situation . Salzburg, Vienna 1971
  • The disappearance of the shadow in the sun . Frankfurt / Main 1973; as dtv paperback, new series, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-06302-5 .
  • Return to the provisional starting point . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7017-0044-3 .
  • Chasing the wind. Narratives . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7017-0111-3 .
  • The mystifications of Sophie Silber . Novel. Salzburg / Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7017-0152-0 .
  • Amy or The Metamorphosis . Novel. Salzburg, Vienna 1978
  • Withdrawal - a warning message of the most tender kind . Pfaffenweil ​​1979
  • Kai and the love for the models . Novel. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7017-0224-1 ; as dtv paperback, new series, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-06313-0 .
  • Ties . Stories. Salzburg, Vienna 1980.
  • The vacation family , Roman. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7017-0286-1 ; as dtv paperback: Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-10273-X .
  • Landscape for angels . Vienna et al. 1981.
  • The woman in the moon . Novel. Salzburg, Vienna 1982
  • From the life of Pierrot . Stories. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl , Pfaffenweil ​​1982
  • Dream limit . Stories. Salzburg, Vienna 1983
  • Head dancer . Novel. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-7017-0380-9 .
  • Mistress of the animals . Narrative. Salzburg, Vienna 1986
  • About the circumstances . Novel. Salzburg / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7017-0506-2 .
  • Murderous fairy tales . Stories. Salzburg, Vienna 1989
  • One another child . Novel. Salzburg, Vienna, residence 1990
  • Mister Rosa or The Difficulty Not To Be A Dwarf. Game for an actor . Vienna 1991
  • Dream of Literature - Literature of Dream . Salzburg, Vienna 1991
  • Aquarians. Readings from lakes, deserts and living rooms . Salzburg, Vienna 1991
  • Witch heart . Salzburg, Vienna 1994
  • Friend's writing . Salzburg, Vienna, residence 1998
  • Cinquefoil and fairy glove. A literary garden diary . Berlin, set up in 1999
  • Shaman tree. Poems . Graz, Vienna, Droschl 2001
  • The decryption . Novel. Berlin, setup 2001
  • Snapdragon and Iris sword. Garden stories . Berlin, construction 2003
  • The summer Anna disappeared . Berlin, set up in 2004
  • Marten, rose, finch and louse. My garden flat share . Graz, Vienna, Droschl 2007
  • Forget Egypt. A travel novel . Berlin, construction 2008
  • The cow, the buck, his goat and their lover. Pets in domestic use . With graphics by Wouter Dolk, Berlin, construction 2010
  • Where we come from . Structure, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-03508-2 .
  • Spilled milk . Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-351-03710-9 .

Books for children and young readers

  • Amoral children's rattles , 1969
  • The Pluderich , 1969
  • Philomena Mückenschnabel , 1970
  • Upholsterer , with illustrations v. Robert Zeppel-Sperl , 1970
  • The princess in the bobbin and other puppet shows for children , with illustrations v. Ulrike Enders, 1972
  • Ida - and Ob , 1972
  • Grizzly fat belly and Mrs. Nuffl , with linocuts v. Axel Hertenstein, 1975
  • Dear Augustine , with illustrations by Inge Morath , 1981
  • The vacation family , 1981
  • Beaver Tooth and the Khan the Wind , with illustrations v. Angelika Kaufmann, 1990
  • Summer Lake , 1991
  • No power or the way the world took. A picture story , 1993
  • Bedtime story for Maria Carolina , with illustrations from Ducan Kállay, 1994
  • From the girl who walked across the water , with illustrations v. Dusan Kállay, 1996
  • Donna & Dario , 1997
  • The story of the Stainzer pumpkin seed , with illustrations by László Varvasovsky, 2000
  • Alice in Wonderland , with illustrations v. Jassen Ghiuselev, 2000

Plays

  • The grass-green stone eater , 1973
  • The princess in the twisted bobbin , directed by Georg Ourth, Salzburger Landestheater , 1976
  • Daphne und lo or On the edge of the real world , Schauspielhaus Wien, 1982
  • Mister Rosa or The Difficulty Not To Be A Dwarf . Grotesque. Director: Udo Schoen. Aachen: City Theater, 1989
  • No problem . A kind of farce. Director: Michael Gampe. Vienna: Volkstheater in the outer districts, 1994
  • A brief history of mankind . Dramatization for optical concert. Music: Marco Schädler , concept, arrangement, director: Johannes Rausch. Choreography: Guillermo Horta Betancourt. Feldkirch: Chamber of Labor, 1994
  • Lily's coming into being . Monologue, written for Anna Maria Gruber / Irmi Horn. Director: Steffen Höld. Graz: forum stadtpark theater in the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden 2002
  • Raven mother . Melodrama 1989. Directed by Michael A. Richter. Graz: Graz Art Garden 2004

Libretti

Radio plays

  • The Mauskoth and the Kuttlerin . SWF, 1970
  • The unknown hand . SWF, NDR, ORF, 1970
  • Moon by spoon . Director: Klaus Mehrländer . WDR, 1971
  • I want, I want the world . SWF, 1977
  • The moon woman . SDR, ORF, 1979
  • Beaver Tooth and the Khan of the Winds . Director: Hartmut Kirste. SDR, NDR, 1986
  • Internal calls . Director: Ernst Wendt. SDR, ORF Vienna, 1986
  • Tingeltangel or am I still alive? Director: Manfred Marchfelder. SDR, ORF Vienna, 1988
  • Mister Rosa or The Difficulty Not To Be A Dwarf . Director: Götz Fritsch . ORF Vienna, 1990
  • Hanako listening to Mozart and her five kittens . With Kazuko Saegura. Director: Georg Madeja. ORF Vienna, 1991
  • No problem . Director: Götz Fritsch. ORF, WDR, 1992
  • The grass-green stone eater . Director: Johannes Rausch. ORF Vorarlberg, 1993
  • A love in Erzurum . Director: Götz Fritsch. ORF, WDR, 1994
  • Miss Potter changed her mind . ORF, WDR, 1996
  • Genesis . Radio Bremen, 1997.
  • Four verses for a cloak or the metamorphosis of Abu Seid by Serug , WDR 1997

Translations

Movies

  • The mouse fright . TV picture story based on a puppet show by Barbara Frischmuth. Director: Tony Munzlinger . SWF, 1972
  • So what. A witch story . Movie made for TV, SWF 1972
  • The princess in the twisted bobbin . TV cartoon based on Barbara Frischmuth. Director: Tony Munzlinger. SWF, 1973
  • Ida - and Ob . BR 1973
  • Forgotten Dog Tree . TV film, ORF 1976
  • Farewells . TV film in two parts. Screenplay (based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler and a story by Barbara Frischmuth) Director: Gedeon Kovács . ORF, ZDF, 1986
  • Otter . Television game. ORF 1985.
  • Ausseerland , ORF, 1991
  • Raben Mutter , directed by Christian Berger, ORF, 1991
  • Summer lake . Television series in six episodes, directed by Erhard Riedlsperger , ORF, ZDF, 1992

Others

literature

  • Barbara Frischmuth , ed. v. Kurt Bartsch. Literature publ. Droschl, Graz a. a. 1992 (= Dossier. The series of books on Austrian authors; 4).
  • Barbara Frischmuth , ed. v. Silvana Cimenti et al. Ingrid Spörk. Literature publ. Droschl, Graz a. a. 2007. (= Dossier. The book series about Austrian authors; Extra) ISBN 978-3-85420-719-1 .
  • Barbara Frischmuth. Cheating. An illustrated foray through a literary cosmos , ed. v. Daniela Bartens u. Ingrid Spörk. Residenz-Verl., Salzburg a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1255-7 .
  • Barbara Frischmuth in contemporary context , ed. v. Renate S. Posthofen. Ariadne Press, Riverside, Calif. 1999, ISBN 1-57241-054-X .
  • Christa Gürtler: Do women write differently? Studies on Ingeborg Bachmann and Barbara Frischmuth . Heinz, Akad. Verl., Stuttgart 1983. (= Stuttgart works on German studies; 134) ISBN 3-88099-138-3 .
  • Andrea Horváth: We are different. Gender and ethnicity in Barbara Frischmuth's novels . Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3632-3 .
  • 'When lying down, the horizon is always so far away'. Crossing borders with Barbara Frischmuth , ed. v. Anna Babka u. Peter Clar. Special number, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-85449-465-2 .
  • Silvia Maria Koger: The function of the locations in the narrative work of Barbara Frischmuth . Dipl.-Arb. Univ. Vienna 1990.
  • Bärbel Kuehn: Children's story, game and parable. Studies of short prose texts around 1970 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1988. (= Analyzes and Documents; 23) ISBN 3-8204-1084-8 .
  • Matthias Luserke : School tells. Literary mirror images in the 19th and 20th centuries . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999 (= Kleine Reihe V&R; 4016), pp. 109–116.
  • Beate Müller: The fantastic in women's literature. Comparative considerations on selected works by Irmtraud Morgner and Barbara Frischmuth . Leipzig, 1995. (= German university publications ; 2290) ISBN 3-8267-2290-6 .
  • Beatrix Rödl: Barbara Frischmuth: A study on the reception of their works . Housework Univ. Vienna 1983.
  • Gerlinde Saupper: Barbara Frischmuth. Attempt to characterize the entire work with special consideration of the trilogy: "The Mystification of Sophie Silber" (1976), "Amy or the Metamorphosis" (1978) and "Kai and the Love of Models" (1979) . Housework Univ. Vienna 1984.
  • Edith B. Vandervoort: The emergence of female adolescent protagonists in selected twentieth-century novels from French Canada, Germany, and Austria . Univ. of Tennessee, Diss., Knoxville 2003.
  • Anna Babka / Peter Clar (eds.): “When lying down, the horizon is always so far away”. Crossing borders with Barbara Frischmuth. Vienna: special number 2016.

Web links

Commons : Barbara Frischmuth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Frischmuth receives Ring of Honor from the State of Styria. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Frischmuth, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Altaussee , Styria, Austria