Dorothea Zeemann

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Dorothea Zeemann (born April 20, 1909 in Vienna , † December 11, 1993 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Dorothea Zeemann came from a poor background and trained as a nurse. Encouraged by her close friend Egon Friedell , she began her literary career in the early 1930s; her first work was not published until ten years later. From 1929 until his death, she was married to the academic painter Rudolf Holzinger (1898–1949). After 1945 she worked as a freelance journalist and critic. In 1955 she met the writer Heimito von Doderer and became his lover for a long time. Zeemann worked in the Viennese public education and from 1970 to 1972 as Secretary General of the Austrian PEN Club . Her literary breakthrough came in 1979 with her two autobiographical novels. Her late work dealt with the topic of female sexuality in old age. In the last months of her life she was married to the electrical engineer Slaheddine Samaali.

Works

  • Signal from the mountains. A tale of mountains, brave boys and girls. Youth book, published under the name Dora Holzinger. Walter Flechsig, Dresden 1941.
  • Ottilie. A fate for Goethe. Novel. Pallas, Salzburg 1949.
  • The report book. Novel. Biederstein, Munich 1959, ISBN 3-518-39478-9 .
  • Practice in disasters. Life from 1913 to 1945. Memories. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-37065-0 .
  • Virgin and reptile. Life between 1945 and 1972. Memories. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / Main 1982, ISBN 3-518-37276-9 . As an excerpt: Virgo and Reptile. Life between 1955 and 1966. Rimbaud, Aachen 2013, ISBN 3-890-86449-X .
  • An unsympathetic woman. Stories. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-04522-9 .
  • The secret festival. Novel. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-37785-X .
  • A lover. Novel. Eichborn, Frankfurt / Main 1989, ISBN 3-821-80186-7 .
  • Travel seriously. Novel. Edition Falter in the ÖBV, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-854-63107-3 .
  • Uriel. Detective novel, published posthumously. The apple, Vienna 2010, ISBN 3-854-50009-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zeemann, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holzinger, Dorothea (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1993
Place of death Vienna