Erica Fischer

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Erica Fischer (2009)

Erica Fischer (born January 1, 1943 in St Albans , England ) is an Austrian writer , journalist , translator and women's rights activist .

Life

Erica Fischer was born in England, where her parents emigrated in 1938 after Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. In 1948 the family returned to Vienna . In the early 1970s, Fischer was a founding member of the New Women's Movement in Vienna. She is co-founder of the feminist magazine AUF - a women's magazine and the Viennese bookstore Frauenzimmer .

Erica Fischer lives today as a freelance writer, journalist and translator in Berlin .

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Fischer's greatest success was the documentary story Aimée & Jaguar , in which, with the help of contemporary witnesses, she traces the love affair between two women in Germany at the time of National Socialism . The main focus is on Lilly Wust's memories of her lover Felice Schragenheim , who was abducted by the Gestapo in 1944 and later died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . The book has been translated into 20 languages. In 1996 it received the Lambda Literary Award . Max Färberböck filmed the love story in 1998 as a novel-like documentary fiction under the same title .

Awards and grants

Erica Fischer at the 2009 Hedwig Dohm Certificate
  • 1999: Residence grant at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf , Brandenburg
  • 2006/2007: Project grant for literature from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
  • 2007: Residency at Villa Decius, Krakow
  • 2009 Hedwig Dohm certificate from the Association of Women Journalists
  • 2017: Writer in Residence in the Literaturhaus Niederösterreich, Krems / Stein

Bibliography (selection)

  • Beyond dreams. Women around forty , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-462-01559-1 .
  • Manly. Examinations of a feminist on the big difference , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-462-01853-1 .
  • No state can be made without us. GDR women after the reunification. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-462-02057-9 .
  • Aimée & Jaguar. A love story, Berlin 1943. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 978-3-462-03499-8 .
  • In the beginning there was anger. Monika Hauser and Medica Mondiale, a women's project during the war , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-462-02641-0 .
  • The love of Lena Goldnadel, Jewish stories , Rowohlt, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87134-398-6 .
  • The short life of the Jewess Felice Schragenheim. "Jaguar", Berlin 1922 - Bergen-Belsen 1945. With photos by Christel Becker-Rau. dtv, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-423-30861-3 .
  • with Mariam Notten: I chose freedom, story of an Afghan family , Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-446-20284-6 .
  • with Simone Ladwig-Winters: The Wertheims, History of a Family , Rowohlt, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-87134-443-5 .
  • The most important thing is to be true to yourself. The story of the twin sisters Rosl and Liesl , Ueberreuter, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-8000-7081-7 .
  • Himmelstrasse. History of my family , Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-24592-3 .
  • Mein Archangel , Roman, Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-660-6 .
  • Königskinder , Roman, Rowohlt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87134-741-2 .
  • That's how it started (for me). In: Käthe Kratz , Lisbeth N. Trallori (Ed.): Love, Power and Adventure. On the history of the new women's movement in Vienna. Promedia, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85371-365-5 .
  • Feminism Revisited . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8270-1387-3 .

literature

  • Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .

Web links

Commons : Erica Fischer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of grants 1999 on the website of the Künstlerhaus
  2. ^ Website of the Villa Decius
  3. ^ Hedwig Dohm certificate. In: Journalistinnen.de. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ List of previous guests on the website of the Literaturhaus
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Erica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH St Albans