Helene Lahr
Helene Lahr (actually Helene Birti-Lavarone ; born on January 9, 1894 in Vienna ; died on March 23, 1958 there ) was an Austrian writer and translator.
Life
Lahr came from an upper-class family, her aunt on her father's side was the women's rights activist and writer Rosa Mayreder . In 1918 she married an officer with whom she resided in Baden near Vienna until 1945 . Back in Vienna in 1945, she worked as an editor and translator of French and Polish literature for the Ullstein publishing house . She also published poetry and short prose. In 1955 a volume of stories was published.
Her partner and estate administrator Oskar Jan Tauschinski posthumously put together two volumes with poems and short prose from different periods of life.
Appreciations
- 1954 Prize for Poetry by the Wiener Zeitung
Works
- The real owls. Stories. Vienna 1955.
- Skeptical diary. Vienna 1963.
- The sideways glance. Vienna 1969.
- Translations
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec : Walking over bridges. Poems. Vienna 1950.
- Polish poetry. Re-seals. Anthology. Vienna 1953.
- Julian Tuwim : The Locomotive. Munich 1969.
- Julian Tuwim: The turnip. Children's book. Munich 1970.
literature
- Christine Schmidjell: Lahr, Helene. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, vol. 7, p. 168.
- Oskar Jan Tauschinski : Helene Lahr, Lady Outsider. In: Wort in der Zeit , Heft 8 (1962), pp. 6–12.
Web links
- Literature by and about Helene Lahr in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lahr, Helene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Birti-Lavarone, Helene (real name); Birti, Helene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1958 |
| Place of death | Vienna |