Doris Mühringer

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Doris Mühringer (born September 18, 1920 in Graz , † May 26, 2009 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

biography

Doris Mühringer grew up in Graz and Vienna. After the end of the Second World War , Mühringer worked in Salzburg as a translator and editor for various publishers. During this time she got to know the Viennese writer and critic Hans Weigel , who recognized and encouraged her poetic talent. Mühringer followed Weigel to Vienna, where she began her writing career.

In 1954 Weigel published some of Doris Mühringer's poems in the literary magazine Voices of the Present, which he edited . Mühringer was then awarded the Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry. Two years later she was awarded the poetry prize of the Neue Deutsche Hefte .

Doris Mühringer mainly wrote poetry and short prose as well as some picture books for children. Although she regularly took part in readings and went on a lecture tour to the United States in 1969, Mühringer saw herself as shy of people. In the following years Mühringer was awarded the Literature Prize of the State of Styria and the Silver Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna . In 2001 Mühringer was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Children's and Youth Literature . Her children's books and volumes of poetry have been reissued, most recently published in 2005 with Mühringer's Collected Works: Es lost the time .

Doris Mühringer died on May 26, 2009 at the age of 88 in a Viennese hospital. Gerhard Ruiss paid tribute to her in an obituary "as one of the great poets of the 50s and 60s". You have left behind a quantitatively rather inconspicuous work, but its quality is all the more weighty. Her estate is in the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research in Graz.

Mühringer was a member of the Austrian Writers 'Association , the Austrian Society for Literature, the Podium literary group and the international writers' association PEN

Awards

Works

  • 1957 poems I.
  • 1960 The fairy tale of the little sandmen (children's book). Pictures by Maria Rehm
  • 1969 poems II
  • 1976 Dust opens the eye. Poems III
  • 1984 birds that are sleepless. Poems IV
  • 1985 dancing under the net. Short prose
  • 1989 That had the rats from the shadow
  • 1995 we travel
  • 1999 But now you hesitate. Late poems
  • 2000 Lying on the meadow (children's book)
  • 2000 Located in the intermediate realm. Eighty for eighty.
  • 2002 Selected Poems
  • 2005 Time is lost. The collected work. Edited by Helmuth A. Niederle

Secondary literature

  • Christian Loidl : Paths in the Dark. Possibilities for the analysis of Doris Mühringer's poetic work . Vienna 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Is that enough? It's the world ( memento from June 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) . Obituary by Heinz Janisch on orf.at (accessed on May 27, 2009)
  2. ↑ Der Standard : Trakl Prize winner Doris Mühringer died on May 26, 2009.
  3. ↑ Austria Forum | https://austria-forum.org : Mühringer, Doris. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mühringer, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2009
Place of death Vienna