Poet's wife
The poet's wife is the first novel by the Austrian writer Mario Schlembach , which was published by Otto Müller Verlag in spring 2017.
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Like every year, Hedwig and Hubert visit the Venice Art Biennale . They save the Austria pavilion for last and what they find is nothing more than a black stage. The 92-year-old Hedwig begins a furious monologue, which first defeats the art seen and then provides ever deeper insights into her own life. Hubert is silent. At some point he stopped breathing, but his wife does not notice it in her angry speech. Or does she not even want to notice? Hedwig talks about her big dream to follow in the footsteps of Alma Mahler-Werfel . At that time she had "saved" Hubert from the provinces and wanted to raise him - the amateur in natural poetry - to the position of great Burgtheater poet. Hubert refused and preferred to hire as an arranger at Bestattung Wien to stage his world comedy there. Hedwig sacrificed everything for her dream of conquering the Burgtheater and leading it to its former glory, but all that remained was the silence.
On a second level, the novel can also be read as a fictionalization of the relationship between Thomas Bernhard and Hedwig Stavianicek .
Wolfgang Reitzammer, Nürnberger Nachrichten, May 8, 2017: Between death and theater: “With his first prose, Mario Schlembach succeeds in taking a darkly humorous and deeply satirical view of recent Austrian cultural history. Using autobiographical elements and literary research projects, he creates a highly entertaining novel - somewhere between Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame' and Thomas Bernhard's 'Extinction'. "
Theater version
World premiere on November 27, 2019, in the Innsbruck basement theater, with Eleonore Bürcher. Director: Manfred Schild
Web links
- Text genesis for the poet's wife - by and with Mario Schlembach
- A summer in the Thomas-Bernhard-Haus - Mario Schlembach in: DER STANDARD, album, September 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irene Prugger: Drooling wife, silent man . In: Current books - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on November 16, 2018]).
- ↑ What to read in 2017 . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed November 16, 2018]).
- ^ PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Poet's wife - Books - Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Uwe Betz, Manfred Mittermayer: 92 Effects on other authors . In: Bernhard-Handbuch . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-02076-5 , pp. 512-519 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-476-05292-6_94 ( springer.com [accessed November 15, 2018]).
- ↑ Read log. Accessed November 15, 2018 (German).
- ↑ tirol ORF at / Agencies red: Culture: Cellar theater celebrates its 40th birthday. September 28, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .