Hanna Maria Drack

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Hanna Maria Drack (actually Marie Elisabet Johanna Drack , née Marie Elisabet Johanna Börner ; born June 10, 1913 in Penig , † September 16, 1988 in Scharnstein ) was a German-Austrian poet and writer.

Life

She was the daughter of Paul Julius Börner and Emma Marie Börner. Johanna Börner's school education took place in Penig. She was a gifted primary school student and graduated from the Penig Higher School in 1929. Johanna Börner began writing poetry in the first year of elementary school. Her verses were well received during her high school attendance, and at the age of 16 she was in charge of writing a school newspaper. Since then Johanna Börner has been called a local poet. In her early creative period, poetry of various types and themes, song texts (including self-set music), short stories, travelogues, short stories and documentaries - some of them in English.

In 1929 she began her professional engagement in Penig. In 1932 she went to England for a year to improve her English language skills. From 1933 to 1941 Johanna Börner worked as a management secretary and foreign language correspondent for English, French and Italian in the Peniger machine factory. In addition to her work, she studied French and Italian at the Berlitz School of Languages in Chemnitz . Further stays in England followed in 1937 and 1939. She married in 1941 and moved to Upper Austria, where she worked in her husband's family business until 1942. From the end of 1942 to 1943, she continued her professional career as an editorial secretary in Berlin. From mid-1943, Scharnstein was her permanent residence in the eastern Salzkammergut in Upper Austria. Her four children grew up there and Hanna Maria Drack was a housewife, mother and grandmother twelve times. In addition to her extensive family and domestic obligations, she devoted herself to her artistic work.

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Central themes in Hanna Maria Drack's work are nature, the little things and joys in life, family, interpersonal relationships, home, social action, honesty, respect, international understanding and world peace. From 1941 onwards, life in the country in seclusion, far from cultural centers, posed no insignificant barriers to her literary career. At a time when women did not drive a car, telephone calls were expensive, computers and the Internet had not yet arrived, Hanna Maria Drack only had the typewriter and the mail. She loved the nature and the landscape of the Salzkammergut . This inspired her, which is clearly reflected in her work. In the creative period from 1941 onwards, he wrote poetry in rhyme and free rhythms , epigrams , aphorisms , haikus , poetry cycles, novels, short stories, radio plays, feuilletons , libretti , cheerful-critical, children's poems, children's books, children's songs and many song texts, to which they sometimes also use the Wrote melodies. Numerous texts have been set to music by renowned composers. She also wrote articles for school radio programs and textbooks in school operations, also in English, as well as works in Saxon, Upper Austrian and Viennese. Hanna Maria Drack worked for many years with the ORF (Austrian public radio and television company). A large part of her work has so far remained unpublished.

Books of poetry and poetry strips

  • Through life - through the year . Poetry book. European publisher, Vienna 1966
  • Major and minor . Poetry book. European publisher, Vienna 1968
  • Colorful stones . Poetry book. European publisher, Vienna 1970
  • Silence - joy - loneliness . Lyric strip. Podium 70, Salzburg
  • Whispers of flowers . Lyric strip. Podium 70, Salzburg
  • Our time in the mirror and distorting mirror . Poetry book. European publisher, Vienna 1978
  • In the last third of a person's life . Poetry book. Upper Austria. Landesverlag, Ried im Innkreis 1978
  • We poor, poor girls . Lyric strip. Podium 70, Salzburg
  • Men are pitiful too . Lyric strip. Podium 70, Salzburg
  • Flowers that never wither . Lyric strip. Podium 70, Salzburg
  • The jug of life . Poetry book. Upper Austria. Landesverlag, Ried im Innkreis 1979
  • Thoughts on the way . Poetry book. Upper Austria. Landesverlag, Ried im Innkreis 1981
  • Grandma's thoughts . Lyric strip. Podium 70, Salzburg
  • Thoughts about the grandpas . Lyric strip. Podium 70, Salzburg
  • Epigrams . Poetry book. Upper Austria. Landesverlag , Ried im Innkreis 1985

Posthumously:

  • Grandma and Grandpa, thoughts of a grandma. Thoughts about the grandpas . 2nd Edition. Lyric Stripe, Linz 1997
  • Memory seems gilded . Poetry book. Edition Triglav, eds. Karola Drack and Roman Rocek, Vienna 1990

Publications in anthologies

  • It's Christmas again . Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1964
  • Verse, rhyme, stanza, poem, verse doctrine . Thun / Munich 1968
  • Thoughts about joy . Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1969
  • How wise do you have to be to always be good . Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1972
  • Only joy gives us hope . European publisher Vienna 1972
  • People in the shade . Podium 70, Salzburg 1972
  • We want to fathom the truth . European publisher Vienna 1973
  • He who knows how to love is young . 1974
  • What is thought - what is seen . Prose anthology of Austrian women 1974
  • The strange people . 1975
  • Flying sparks . Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1975
  • Thoughts about happiness . Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1976
  • The right measure . European publisher 1977
  • Thoughts about flowers . Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, Steyr 1979

Novels, short stories, essays

  • Call of the clod . Novel. Moldavia Verlag, Vienna 1970
  • Call of the clod . Novel in sequels. Kremstal-Bote, Kirchdorf an der Krems 1977
  • Toni Föllner's homecoming . Novel by Hanni Birkmoser alias Hanna Maria Drack. Zauberkreis Verlag, D-7550 Rastatt 1977
  • Yesterday enemy - today friend . Novel in sequels. Kremstal-Bote, Kirchdorf an der Krems 1980

(The title of this novel was previously Conquered Borders and was published as such)

  • America, America . Kremstal-Bote, Kirchdorf an der Krems 1983

Children's literature

  • Flips, flaps and the grandfather . Children's book. Giebichenstein-Verlag, D-83112 Wildenwart 1974
  • All against Peter . Children's book. Giebichenstein-Verlag, D-83112 Wildenwart 1975
  • On the right track . Detective story, audio book on 2 cassettes. Erich Schumm GmbH, D-71540 Murrhardt 1981

Published works set to music

  • Becoming and passing away . Music: Karl Etti. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Inspiration; The source; At the Wiesenrain . Music: Karl Etti. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Shadows and lights . Music: Karl Etti. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Young together, old together . Music: Herbert Seiter. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • What really matters . Music: Herbert Seiter. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • You have to be able to wait for happiness . Music: Hans Lang . Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Everything made in Austria . Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • I had a dream today . Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • A Jaga gin hunt . Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Any time . Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • In Vienna, time stands still a little . Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • A glass of wine . Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Evening at the Almsee . Music: Lois Wurzinger . Text: Toni Friedl alias Hanna Maria Drack
  • When I can never yodel . Music: L. Wurzinger. Text: Toni Friedl alias Hanna Maria Drack
  • There is a Hütterl on the mountain . Music: L. Wurzinger. Text: Toni Friedl alias Hanna Maria Drack
  • Kuckuuu - sweetheart . Music: L. Wurzinger. Text: Toni Friedl alias Hanna Maria Drack
  • I like my Ruah . Music: L. Wurzinger. Text: Toni Friedl alias Hanna Maria Drack
  • The Vienna subway . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Love letter from Vienna . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • The whole year was nice with you . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Little stewardess . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • A little house on the mountain . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Rain song . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • It's more . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Ping pong . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • I'm so "in" . Music: Fritz Killer. Text: Jo Martin alias Hanna Maria Drack
  • Carnival Waltz . Music: Georg Luksch . Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Liab sa ma… . Music: Josef Felsinger. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • I like you . Music: Franz Knittel. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Many create, many achieve . Music: Otto Tschernik. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • A little kiss . Music: Ludwig Babinski . Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • A music, a mood . Music: Ludwig Babinski. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Gmunden beautiful Traunsee town . Music: Joseph Moser. Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Our Austria . Music: Werner Brüggemann . Text: Hanna Maria Drack
  • Scharnsteiner Heimatlied . Music & Text: Hanna Maria Drack. Arranger: Konrad Rennert

Audio productions

  • On the right track . Children's book on double cassette. Erich Schumm GmbH, D-71540 Murrhardt
  • You have to be able to wait for happiness . Singer: Heinz Conrads. Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. AMADEO
  • You have to be able to wait for happiness . Singer: siblings Schneider. Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. GEMA
  • When I can never yodel . Music: Lois Wurzinger. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. Polydor Austria Gold (LP)
  • When I can never yodel . Music: Lois Wurzinger. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. POLYDOR Austria Gold (cassette)
  • Evening at the Almsee . Music: Lois Wurzinger. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. POLYDOR (LP)
  • Evening at the Almsee . Music: Lois Wurzinger. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. Polydor Austria Gold (LP)
  • Evening at the Almsee . Music: Lois Wurzinger. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. POLYDOR Austria Gold (cassette)
  • Gmunden, beautiful Traunsee town . Singers: Elfie Friedrich, Fritz Nidetzky. Music: Josef Moser. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. SC / SUPERCORD
  • A Jaga went hunting . Music: Hans Lang. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. ELITE RECORD SERIES (LP)
  • Our Austria . Music: Werner Brüggemann. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. Eberle-Koch Verlag, Koch Records Special (LP)
  • Becoming and passing away, spring forebears . Singer: Heinz Zednik. Music: Karl Etti. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. Bock Productions (CD)
  • Becoming and passing away, the last rose . Singer: Heinz Zednik. Music: Karl Etti. Text: Hanna Maria Drack. Bock Productions (CD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.penig.de/geschichte-der-stadt-penig/persoenitäten/drack-hanna-maria/
personal data
SURNAME Drack, Hanna Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drack, Marie Elisabet Johanna (real name); Börner, Marie Elisabet Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Penig
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1988
Place of death Scharnstein