Gertraude Portisch

Gertraude "Traudi" Portisch (born February 25, 1920 in Vienna as Gertraude Reich ; † January 23, 2018 ibid) was an Austrian writer. She published many of her books under her maiden name Traudi Reich .

Life

After Austria was annexed to the Nazi state in 1938, Traudi's father, Maximilian Reich , was first transferred to the Dachau concentration camp and then to the Buchenwald concentration camp because of his Jewish faith . It was only his wife Emilie Reich, a Catholic, who managed to get Maximilian Reich to leave Buchenwald and to emigrate with her to England. The daughters Traudi and Marianne later followed their parents.

During his exile, Traudi Reich worked as an assistant teacher in a Benedictine monastery.

After the war , the family returned to Vienna in 1947. Her father was a sports reporter and founded her own sports newspaper, where she met her future husband, the journalist Hugo Portisch . They had a son, Edgar Thomas Portisch (born March 13, 1949, † April 11, 2012).

Even after her marriage to Hugo Portisch, she worked mainly as an author, for the press and as a correspondent under her maiden name Traudi Reich. Later she wrote children's books, poems and stories, in which she processed, among other things, her experiences from the time of exile.

The Portischs also had a house in Tuscany , and the couple described their experiences there in their jointly written book The Olive and Us .

Works

• Little little boy. Children's songs and games . 1963. (New edition 1992, ISBN 3-210-24942-3 )
• Me and you: nursery rhymes . Herder Verlag, 1978, ISBN 3-451-17696-3 .
• Who are you? Edition Rötzer, 1979, ISBN 3-85374-064-2 .
• Panda or the escape from the zoo . Südwest Verlag, 1980.
• From Tozzlpozzeln and Molopontonis . Kremayr and Scheriau, 1986, ISBN 3-218-00440-3 .
• Take the time to be a friend . Edition Rötzer, 1993, ISBN 3-85374-224-6 .
• Wrong turns. Escher. Adam. Edition Atelier, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85308-014-6 .
• The secret of the yellow bird . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-218-00671-6 .
• Cassiel . Edition Atelier, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85308-057-X .
• The dogs of Benevento . Dachs, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85191-351-5 .
• God and grandmother . Edition Portisch, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902635-00-6 .
• Nogi and the migration of the black birds . Edition Portisch, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502967-0-9 .
• The journey to the stars. Sagas and myths of the constellations . Residence, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7074-5109-2 .
• The unicorn in search of traces . Obelisk, Innsbruck / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85197-690-8 .
• Two white butterflies . Edition Portisch, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902635-01-3 .
• The giant to the light . Edition Portisch, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-9502967-4-7 .
• Hell come out . Edition Portisch, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-200-04697-9 .

together with Hugo Portisch

• Mushroom hunting is a pleasure. The best edible mushrooms and their doppelgangers . Orac Pietsch, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85368-907-8 .
• The olive and us . Ecowin, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902404-72-5 .

literature

• Traudi Reich , in: Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Traudi Reich in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Helmut Brandstätter: Obituary: Traudi Portisch believed in the good. In: kurier.at. January 24, 2018, accessed May 23, 2018 .