Elfriede Gerstl
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
- 1978 Theodor Körner Prize
- 1978 Award of the Vienna Art Fund
- 1984 Austrian Prize for Literature
- 1990 Literature Prize of the City of Vienna
- 1997 Gold Medal of the City of Vienna
- 1999 Georg Trakl Prize
- 1999 Erich Fried Prize
- 2003 Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 2004 Ben Witter Prize from the Ben Witter Foundation
- 2007 Heimrad Bäcker Prize
- 2009 (posthumous) Premio Roma for Spazi per giocare con la mente
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
- Board games with me . Poems and short prose. Cultural Office of the City of Linz 1962. Without ISBN.
- Legitimate questions . Radio plays. Vienna and Munich: Edition literary producers / youth and people 1973. ISBN 3-7141-6698-X .
- Leeway . With an afterword by Andreas Okopenko . Linz: edition neue texte 1977. ISBN 3-900292-07-8
- Leeway . With an afterword by Heimrad Bäcker . Graz: edition neue texte / Literaturverlag Droschl 1993. ISBN 3-85420-325-X .
- Fools and officials . Essays. Vienna 1980. Without ISBN.
- Viennese mix . Poems and short prose. edition neue texte, literary publisher Droschl, Linz / Graz 1982.
- a woman is a woman is a woman ... authors on authors (editor). Vienna: Promedia 1985. ISBN 978-3-900478-08-7 .
- Before arrival . Travel poems. Edition in four languages, German-English-French-Italian, Vienna: Freeboard-Verlag special series 1988. Without ISBN
- Deposits . Edited together with Herbert J. Wimmer . Graz: edition neue texte / Droschl 1989. ISBN 3-900292-60-4 .
- Under one hat . Poems and essays. Vienna: Deuticke 1993. ISBN 3-85463-124-3 .
- Clothes flight - text textiles living . With photographs by Herbert J. Wimmer . Vienna: Edition Splitter 1995. ISBN 3-901190-14-7 (NA. Vienna: Edition Splitter 2007. ISBN 978-3-901190-44-5 ).
- The flying Frieda . A book for young people. With illustrations by Angelika Kaufmann . Vienna: Edition Splitter 1998. ISBN 3-901190-56-2 .
- Poems every day. Show pieces and audio pieces . Vienna: Deuticke 1999. ISBN 3-216-30474-4 .
- new viennese mix . With an afterword by Konstanze Fliedl . Graz: edition neue texte / Droschl 2001. ISBN 3-85420-558-9 .
- LOGO (S) - a box book. fifty text view cards . (Together with Herbert J. Wimmer ) Graz: Droschl 2004. ISBN 3-85420-654-2 .
- my paper garden . poems and crumbs. Graz: Droschl 2006. ISBN 978-3-85420-708-5 .
- signs of life - poems dreams crumbs of thought . With a foreword by Elfriede Jelinek . With illustrations by Heinrich Heuer , Angelika Kaufmann and Herbert J. Wimmer . Graz: Droschl 2009. ISBN 978-3-85420-763-4 .
- BALANCE BALANCE. Poems in Spanish and German. With Herbert J. Wimmer . Translated by Olga Sánchez Guevara. Poetry of the Present No. 94, Edition Art Science, St. Wolfgang 2020 ISBN 978-3-903335-07-3
Sound carrier
- Every day poems - selected and read by Elfriede Gerstl. he Hörverlag, Munich 2000 ISBN 3-89584-613-9 .
- 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… spoken by Elfriede Gerstl, Timna Brauer , Erika Deutinger , Barbara Horvath , Sharon Nuni , Vera Albert , Anat Stainberg and Doron Rabinovici . Edition "Mediterranean 23" No. 3, AlbertVera Verlag Vienna 2013 ISBN 978-3-9503164-2-1 .
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
- Literature by and about Elfriede Gerstl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elfriede Gerstl in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
- Biography and detailed catalog raisonné on in | ad | ae | qu | at
- Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
- Read poems by Elfriede Gerstl himself on lyrikline.org
- Text view map 1 electronic publication by Elfriede Gerstl and Herbert J. Wimmer in the salon litteraire
- Matthias Fallenstein: “Bingo or the desire for liberating knowledge. Elfriede Gerstl - a work portrait ” (PDF; 2.0 MB), in: Critical Edition - Journal for German Studies & Literature , Winter 2008/09, pp. 68–73.
- Elfriede & Elfriede Film by Hanna Laura Klar about Elfriede Gerstl and Elfriede Jelinek
- Entry about Elfriede Gerstl ( memento from 7 July 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Literature in Context , a multilingual project of the University of Vienna (in German , archived from the original ).
- Archive recordings with and about Elfriede Gerstl in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (readings, lectures)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Go tight!" awarded as "Radio Play of the Year". In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |