Dora Dunkl

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Dora Dunkl , born as Waltraud Schottenloher (born October 13, 1925 in Würzburg , † December 3, 1982 in Steyr , Upper Austria ), was a German-Austrian poet and writer.

life and work

Arcades in the Dunklhof
Grave at the Steyr Urn Cemetery

The author was born in Würzburg in 1925 as the daughter of the physician Johann Schottenloher and his wife Hedwig Schottenloher. The residence was at Traubengasse 15. At the beginning of 1929 the family moved to Deggendorf , first to Bahnhofstrasse 33 and later to Dr.-Pfahler-Strasse. After the girls' college and secondary school in Deggendorf , Waltraud Schottenloher, as she was then called, studied cultural studies in Würzburg . There she met the medical student Anton Oberleitner, whom she married in 1944 at the age of 19. After the war they both moved to Wels to live with Anton's half-sister Resi Schinninger and finally to Haidershofen near Steyr, where her husband worked as a doctor. This marriage resulted in two children: daughter Waltraud in 1946, son Hans Anton in 1950. The first works were created: cultural reports and feature pages for regional newspapers and formally conservative poetry . She ran a "social-literary salon" in Haidershofen. In autumn 1954 she met Axel Corti , then director of the Tyrolean studio , who arranged for her poems to be read on the radio for the first time.

In 1958 he divorced and married Heinrich Dunkl, a Steyr architect twenty years older than him. The daughter and son stayed with the father. From now on she published under the name Dora Dunkl . The residence was the Dunklhof in the Steyrer Kirchengasse. At the end of July 1959, the author organized an “evening music” for the first time in the arcade courtyard there with free admission. As early as the next year, this was renamed "Serenand Evening" and organized in cooperation with the cultural office of the city of Steyr. Between musical contributions, for example by Beethoven , Haydn or Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the author spoke classical poetry, but also her own contributions or realistic prose, for example by Marlen Haushofer .

In 1970 she received the Upper Austrian Literature Promotion Prize.

In the same year, she wrote her most famous cycle of poems, Mein Haus , in which she redeems her claim to only show the "essence" of the house and not the house. So it says in the first section:  ... the words / ghosts / and / howl / around the house / like wolves / the steppe / around / the only house / in which / I live / and / the great sandy rain / hear: / / my house / trickle / the stones / back / into / the sea

In 1973 she became treasurer of the Austrian PEN Club . She also joined the Austrian Writers 'Association and the MAERZ artists' association .

Heinrich Dunkl died in December 1978 after a brief illness, Dora Dunkl succumbed to liver and kidney disease in 1982. She is buried with her husband at the municipal urn cemetery on Tabor . The last sentence of the section quoted above is the epitaph (see photo).

aftermath

The Dora-Dunkl-Straße leads in the Steyr district of Gleink (Schladergrund) from the Stichstraße to the Friedhofstraße. The decision on the appointment was made in December 1989.

literature

Works

  • A house made of stone ( Collected Works ). edition wehrgraben, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3-901166-02-5 .
  • One morning ( poems ). Landesverlag, Linz 1986.
  • Song of praise to the Mostbirnbaum ( poems ) Ennsthaler, Steyr 1981.
  • Persistence of Memory ( short prose ). Bergland Verlag, Vienna 1972.

Secondary literature

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Marlene Krisper: Dora Dunkl. A retelling. 3rd ed., Verlag & Galerie Steyrdorf, Steyr 2005, pp. 9–41.
  2. ↑ Dora Dunkl. A retelling. , P. 59 ff.
  3. ↑ Dora Dunkl. A retelling , p. 88 f.
  4. ↑ Dora Dunkl. A retelling. , P. 116
  5. ↑ Dora Dunkl. A retelling, p. 138 f.
  6. ↑ A house made of stone. (Collected Works). edition wehrgraben, Steyr 1992, p. 115.
  7. ↑ Dora Dunkl. A retelling. , P. 185.
  8. ↑ Dora Dunkl. A retelling. P. 194 f.
  9. ↑ Steyr online - street names. Viewed September 4, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Dark, Dora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schottenloher, Waltraud (maiden name);
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1982
Place of death Steyr , Upper Austria