Friedl Hofbauer

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Friedl Hofbauer (* January 19, 1924 in Vienna , † 22. March 2014 ibid) was an Austrian poet , translator and children's books author .

Life

Wiener Zentralfriedhof - honorary grave of Friedl Hofbauer, 2017

Friedl Hofbauer studied German and languages. She later became a freelance writer and translator. In the 1950s she worked for the children's magazine Unser Zeitung , where she and the illustrator Susi Weigel u. a. designed the rhyming adventures of the comic figure "Pipsi Maus", who was at times better known in Austria as "Mickey Mouse" in the early 1950s. Since the early 1960s, she has been writing stories, radio plays, novels, plays and poetry for children and adults. She is considered one of the “mothers” of Austrian children's poetry; as such, she has nurtured and influenced many younger fellow writers. Her texts are characterized by poetry, tenderness, rhythm and linguistic accuracy. Your joke hits exactly, is profound, at times profound. Many of her poems, such as the highway song , the glass ball and the Wippschaukelgedichte , became kinderlyrischen classics and can be found in numerous anthologies and school textbooks. Friedl Hofbauer received the Austrian Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature for her complete works. In her first marriage she was married to the children's book author Kurt Mellach, in the second with Edek Kauer, cultural critic and journalist. Friedl Hofbauer lived in Vienna-Döbling in the Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof . She was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery in the Ehrenhain (group 40, number 192).

Quote

“What no longer upsets me at 70: a disembowelled teddy bear. A text from me, printed somewhere without a name ... What excites me: Bosnia, South America ... The deadly sins against the spirit. One of them is the language in some media. Trained people deal with language as if it had no effect ... three times in a single broadcast: raise the alarm for trivial matters. Do they have any idea what it is like when they really sound the alarm ?! "

Awards and honors

Works

  • In the end it's just a fantasy . 1960
  • The keychain . 1962
  • A love with no answer . 1964
  • The seesaw swing . 1966
  • The humming top . 1969
  • Two children and a moon calf . 1972
  • In the land of Schnipitzel . Poems, 1973
  • The cherry stone chain . 1974
  • The language craft book . 1975 (as co-author)
  • 99 minute fairy tale . 1976, together with Käthe Recheis
  • Animal families . 1976
  • My dear Doctor Eisenbarth . 1978
  • The washing drum drummer . Play poems, 1980
  • Come on, little Indian . 1984, together with Käthe Recheis
  • The lucky cat . 1984
  • The island of the white magicians . 1987
  • Exam in splinter trench . 1988
  • The storm. A magical tale based on William Shakespeare . 1992
  • Small feet - big feet . 1992
  • Cat bed mix. Stories and poems to laugh and dream about . 1993, together with her daughter Anna Melach, ISBN 3-8000-2375-X
  • The golden book of animals in the forest and on the meadow . Illustrations by Károly Reich . Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1974
  • The spinner on the cross . 1994
  • The blueberry bear . 1996, ISBN 3-219-10628-5
  • The frogs of Bethlehem. 15 Christmas theater plays . 1996, together with their children Anna and Alexander Melach, ISBN 3-219-10650-1
  • Ghosts, devils, cutthroats . 1997, together with Franz Sales Sklenitzka , ISBN 3-85326-070-5
  • Toothache death and the devil . 1998
  • What the parrot tells Lorenzo . 1998, together with her daughter Anna Melach
  • Legends from Vienna . 2000
  • The angel behind the evergreen . Illustrations by Birgitta Heiskel , Dachs Verlag 2000,  ISBN 3-85191-188-1
  • Good night in the bear's nest . 2001, ISBN 3-219-10867-9
  • Christmas in the winter forest . 2002, ISBN 3-219-11008-8 . Also as puppet theater in the puppet theater LILARUM (world premiere December 2004)
  • When a lion goes to school . 2002
  • Let's play a nativity play! 15 plays for children . 2003, together with their children Anna and Alexander Melach
  • with Käthe Recheis : The mustache tickling cat book. Illustrations by Thilo Krapp . 2006, ISBN 978-3-85191-397-2 .
  • The White Cat's Secret . 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-2017-0 , together with Käthe Recheis
  • The moon fairy's smile . 2008, ISBN 978-3-7017-2037-8 , together with Käthe Recheis
  • The ghost spring . 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-2061-3
  • It's nice to be tired . 2009, ISBN 978-3-7074-0407-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurier: Children's book author Friedl Hofbauer has died. Courier, accessed on March 25, 2014 (German).
  2. ↑ ^ The Standard: Children's Book author Friedl Hofbauer died. The standard, accessed on March 25, 2014 (German).
  3. ↑ Friedl Hofbauer. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 437, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Hofbauer, Friedl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author of books for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2014
Place of death Vienna