Elisabeth Effenberger

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Elisabeth Effenberger (born December 29, 1921 in Vienna ; † January 31, 2008 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian cultural journalist and author. In 1952 she received the Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry.

Life

Effenberger came to Salzburg in 1945, where she worked as an editor for Igonta-Verlag and was involved in the conference of Austrian authors and composers in Sankt Veit , Carinthia . There she met Christine Lavant and Michael Guttenbrunner , whom she subsequently invited to the annual Hohensalzburg Forum . She worked at the Salzburg State Theater under the management of Hellmuth Matiasek and was then dramaturge at the Braunschweig State Theater .

After her return to Salzburg, she set up the women's radio in the Salzburg regional studio of the ORF . From 1972 to 1978 Effenberg was the cultural editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten . The acquaintance with the young Thomas Bernhard dates from this time, although despite the friendly atmosphere at the time, she strongly criticized him both as an actor and as a writer.

After a stroke in 1988, she was forced to use a wheelchair. She spent her last years in the Sacred Heart Home in Salzburg- Riedenburg .

Appreciations

Fonts

  • The minstrel and his songs. Vindobona, Vienna 2005.
  • (with Ursula von Zdroick) Katzenpost . A purring correspondence. Herbig, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7766-1371-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Today St. Veit Literature Days . See http://www.literaturtagesanktveit.at/index.php?ID=3
  2. ^ Effenberger: Failure in Salzburg. In: Salzburger Nachrichten , September 13, 1975. Review by Thomas Bernhards: The cause .
  3. Helga Strallhofer-Mitterbauer: Nazi literature prices of Austrian authors: a documentary. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1994, p. 57.