Elfriede Gerstl

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Vienna Central Cemetery - honorary grave of Elfriede Gerstl
Elfriede Gerstl in 2007

Elfriede Gerstl (born June 16, 1932 in Vienna ; † April 9, 2009 there ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

As a Jewish child, Elfriede Gerstl survived the Nazi era in various hiding places in Vienna. From 1945 Gerstl attended a high school , which she graduated with a high school diploma in 1951 . Then (until 1960) she studied medicine and psychology (without a degree) at the University of Vienna . In 1960 she married and their daughter Judith Bellina was born.

In 1955 she began to publish in literary magazines. She wrote poems , essays and short prose pieces and was active in the Vienna group . The committed feminist was particularly committed to the issue of gender roles . In 1963 she took part in the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB). From 1963 to 1971 she repeatedly stayed in Berlin for long periods .

From 1972 she lived exclusively in Vienna and was one of the founding members of the Graz Authors' Assembly (GAV), from which she left in 1992 and rejoined in 1995. She organized numerous literary events, for example in the Alte Schmiede and the Literaturhaus Wien , and did a lively essayistic activity, for example with the Falter .

Elfriede Gerstl was married to the poet and translator Gerald Bisinger from 1960 to 1968 and had a daughter with him (Judith Bellina, born 1960), from 1973 to her death in 2009 she was friends with the writer Herbert J. Wimmer . She was buried in an honorary grave (Gr. 40, No. 75) in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

The radio play Walk tight tight! , a fictional dialogue between Elfriede Gerstl and Ruth Johanna Benrath (director: Christine Nagel , composition: Lauren Newton ), was chosen as radio play of the year 2019 by the jury of the German Academy of Performing Arts .

Awards and honors

Works

Work edition

  • Volume 1: Medium-length minis . Edited by Christa Gürtler and Helga Mitterbauer - in collaboration with the literary archive of the Austrian National Library . Graz: Literaturverlag Droschl 2012. ISBN 978-3-85420-797-9 .
  • Volume 2: Guarded . Edited by Christa Gürtler and Helga Mitterbauer - in collaboration with the literary archive of the Austrian National Library. Graz: Literaturverlag Droschl 2013. ISBN 978-3-85420-844-0 .
  • Volume 3: House and Skin . Edited and with an afterword by Christa Gürtler and Martin Wedl - in cooperation with the literary archive of the Austrian National Library. Graz: Literaturverlag Droschl 2014. ISBN 978-3-85420-958-4 .
  • Volume 4: Tandler finds . Edited and with an afterword by Christa Gürtler and Martin Wedl - in cooperation with the literary archive of the Austrian National Library. Graz: Literaturverlag Droschl 2015. ISBN 978-3-85420-967-6 .
  • Volume 5: What remains temporarily . Edited and with an afterword by Christa Gürtler and Martin Wedl - in cooperation with the literary archive of the Austrian National Library. Graz: Literaturverlag Droschl 2017. ISBN 978-3-99059-000-3 .

Single issues

Sound carrier

Translations

  • Spazi per giocare con la mente . Translation by Dagmar Winkler. Preface by Elfriede Jelinek and Fausto Cercignani . Perosini Editore, Zevio / Verona 2007. ISBN 978-88-85409-63-7
  • Assortimento viennese . Poems selected and translated by Riccarda Novello. Preface by Elfriede Jelinek. Luciana Tufani Editrice, Ferrara 2008. ISBN 978-88-86780-69-8
  • A BISSAL GFIACHT A BISSAL GFREID ... - a selection. Translated into Hebrew by Michael Dak , Jerusalem. On the sound carrier: A BISSAL GFIACHT A BISSAL GFREID ... Edition "Mediterranean 23" No. 3, AlbertVera Verlag, Vienna 2013 ISBN 978-3-9503164-2-1 .

literature

  • Konstanze Fliedl and Christa Gürtler (eds.): Dossier Elfriede Gerstl (No. 18) . Literary studies on Elfriede Gerstl. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2002. ISBN 3-85420-601-1
  • Herbert J. Wimmer : Keep in suspension - Elfriede Gerstl's playrooms - a discourse book on literary and social developments in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century . 2nd Edition. edition praesens, Vienna 1998.
  • Dagmar Winkler-Pegoraro: Elfriede Gerstl. "Language (s), games, scope". - Experimental literature in Austria . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1999.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 414 f.
  • Evelyn Steinthaler (Ed.): Women 1938 - Persecuted - Resistant - Followers , ISBN 978-3-85286-161-6 , contains conversations with Ceija Stojka , Dagmar Ostermann , Katharina Sasso and Elfriede Gerstl
  • Hubert Fichte : The second guilt. Glosses. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2006; therein: Interview with Elfriede Gerstl, Vienna, February 4, 1979; Pp. 54-90.
  • Christa Gürtler and Martin Wedl (ed.): Elfriede Gerstl: who's already at home with him . Profile - magazine of the literary archive of the Austrian National Library, Volume No. 19. Texts, documentaries, literary and literary studies on Elfriede Gerstl. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-552-05582-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Go tight!" awarded as "Radio Play of the Year". In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ö1: Radio play "GEH DICHT DICHTIG!" Awarded by the German Academy of Performing Arts as "Radio Play of the Year 2019". January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerstl, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2009
Place of death Vienna