Vera Ferra-Mikura

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Vera Ferra-Mikura , own Gertrud Mikura b. Ferra (* 14. February 1923 in Vienna , † 9. March 1997 ) was an Austrian children's books - author .

Life

After completing secondary school , Vera Ferra-Mikura first worked in her parents' bird shop and later as a runner in a department store in Vienna. During the Second World War she worked as a typist in an architectural office and after 1945 as an editor in a publishing house. Her final resting place is at Vienna's Südwestfriedhof (group 4, row 2, number 5).

Since 1948 she was a freelance writer . In the same year she married the state opera dancer Ludwig Mikura, with whom she had two children. In 1948 and 1949 Ferra-Mikura was a partner in the “Mont Blanc Verlag” founded by Karl Konrad Bauer.

After her book Das Luftschloss des Herr Wuschelkopf , the first Austrian children's musical was created in 1966/67 .

Artistic creation

Almost all of Vera Ferra-Mikura's children's books are characterized by a magical realism . Social criticism is not left out. Nevertheless, the plot and the people involved convey comfort and hope. Vera Ferra-Mikura herself says about her books: “An unclear or negative conclusion leaves you feeling discouraged. Not even the adult, who is stronger than the child, can do without illusions. ”She was best known for the stories about the Stanis lice , which were published by Jungbrunnen . In addition, it is Ferra-Mikura's fantastic texts that have contributed to its literary importance. Susanne Blumesberger postulates that in her fantastic texts Ferra-Mikura "found the new direction of children's and youth literature completely independently, which was given the name" fantastic narrative "or" magical realism "." Ferra-Mikura is therefore, alongside the Austrian writer Erica Lillegg , a pioneer of fantastic storytelling for children in German-speaking countries.

Awards and honors

Grave of Gertrud Ferra-Mikura

Works (in selection)

  • Melody in the morning. Poems , 1946
  • The dead end. Roman , 1947
  • The fairy tale loom , 1947, 77 pages, with 12 illustrations by Emmy Grimme-Sagai
  • Mayor Petersil , 1952
  • Riki. Novel for young girls , 1952
  • The children from Rabenberg , 1953
  • Vienna-Gansbach 40km , 1954, Verlag-Jungbrunnen, Vienna Illustration by Rudolf Dirr
  • The Carpet of Beautiful Dreams , 1955
  • Maxi and the Big People , 1956
  • Magician Opequeh , 1956
  • The strange Mr. Sorrel , 1957
  • Willi Einhorn on strange roads , 1958
  • The ten little negroes , 1958
  • Your Karoline , 1959
  • The good Stengel family , 1959
  • The lesson , 1959
  • Guiltless like the poppy seed capsule , 1961
  • My friend Raisin , 1961
  • Time cannot be measured with clocks , 1962
  • Twelve people is not a dozen , 1962
  • The old and the young and the little Stanislaus , 1962
  • Peppi and the double world , 1963
  • Our three Stanislice , 1963
  • The pink house in Entengasse , 1963
  • Visit to the three Stanislice , 1964
  • Bravo Kasperl , 1956 * - Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau Vienna (Jung Donauland)
  • The rain barrel sings merrily , 1964
  • The mice of the three Stanis lice , 1965
  • Kasperl and the Evil Dragon , 1965
  • Mr Wuschelkopf's castle in the air , 1965
  • A spoon for the crocodile , 1966
  • The nice king mandolin , 1966
  • Aunt Rübchen moves , 1966
  • Have a good trip, Mr. Pfefferkorn , 1967
  • Blueberry Grandpa doesn't yawn anymore , 1968
  • Valentin whistles on the blade of grass , 1970
  • Literary air number , 1970
  • Mr. Plusterflaum experienced something , 1970
  • A morning with Trallala , 1971
  • Dear friend Tulli , 1973 - 1st edition 1969, it says so in the book!
  • Sigismund has a fence , 1973
  • All the best, little Stanislaus! , 1974
  • My dear teddy , 1974
  • My cow is wearing sky blue socks , 1975
  • The language craft book , 1975 (as co-author)
  • Kasperl is on vacation , 1977
  • Nelli from Skyscraper Street , 1977
  • And the day after tomorrow I'll be 13 , 1977
  • Simon and Sabine from the castle ruins , 1978
  • My green-striped ghost book , 1980
  • Grandma shakes hands with the sea , 1982
  • Horoscope for Leo , 1982
  • The Spy on the Magic Carpet , 1984
  • I know a flea market , 1984
  • The Scary Aunt Elli , 1985
  • Don't leave the thinking to the horses! , 1986
  • Veronika, Veronika, Veronika, call the three Stanislice , 1995
  • 1, 2, 3, then I'll ride all over the sky . Ill. V. Renate Habinger and Linda Wolfsgruber . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , Weitra 2007. ISBN 978-3-85252-787-1
  • Panopticon . Stories. Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , Weitra 2015. ISBN 978-3-99028-308-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Peter Fritz, Buchstadt und Buchkrise - Publishing and Literature in Austria 1945-1955, dissertation
  2. ↑ Susanne Blume Berger: Vera Ferra-Mikura. In KinderundJugendmedien.de 2013.
  3. ↑ Vera Bandion: The fantastic story of the 1950s and 1960s . Vienna 2016, p. 20 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Ferra-Mikura, Vera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mikura, Gertrud; Ferra, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author of books for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1997