Henriette Haill

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Henriette Haill (born June 27, 1904 in Linz ; † February 22, 1996 there ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Henriette Haill (née Olzinger) grew up as the daughter of a confectioner and a cook in poor circumstances on the Römerberg in Linz. After elementary and community school, she worked as a maid and nanny from 1918, as an unskilled worker in a waffle factory from 1922 and in a small metalworking company until 1925. She had to break off an apprenticeship as a tailor that began in 1920. In 1922 she became a member of the Communist Youth Association (KJV), and in 1924 she joined the KPÖ . With her partner and future husband, the trained machine fitter Hans Kerschbaumer , she went on the rolling in the summer months from 1926 to 1928 , which took her to Germany. After February 1934, her house was searched. After her divorce from Kerschbaumer (1938), who went to Moscow in 1932 to attend the International Lenin School and was then active in a leading position in the illegal party work of the KPÖ in Vienna, she married the trained technician Eugen Haill in 1939 . From September 1944, she went into hiding with her husband and four children in the Mühlviertel, where they saw the end of the war.

Haill's complete works include around 1,500 poems (650 of them in dialect and 750 in written language) and 44 short stories. Only part of it is available in print. In 1946 her volume of poetry "Liberated Heimat" was published by the Upper Austrian KPÖ publishing house. Above all, it was her political commitment and the anti-communist climate that prevailed in cultural life that made the further reception of her work difficult. Haill achieved wider recognition in the literary public since the 1960s. As a member of the Mühlviertel Artists' Guild (since the 1960s) and the Stelzhamerbund (1972), she has now been invited to readings several times. Her poems were printed in their club magazines - the Mühlviertler Heimatbl Blätter and the notifications of the Stelzhamerbund . In 1991 a selection of her stories was published by Edition Geschichte der Heimat (Edition Geschichte der Heimat) in Mühlviertel , and in 1996 a small publisher published a selection from the eponymous cycle of poems "Street Ballade".

Haill has increasingly come into the public eye since the 1990s through the efforts of the writer Erich Hackl and through a biography of Christine Roiter published in 2006. Hackl writes: “Henriette Haill was destined to be overlooked by the literary public in five ways: because of her poor origins; because of their communist sentiments; due to their focus on the geographical and social periphery; based on their gender; because of their modesty. "

In 2011, by resolution of the Linz municipal council in the Pichling district, a “Henriette-Haill-Weg” was named after numerous cultural workers had supported an initiative of the Linz KPÖ.

Poems by Henriette Haill were set to music by Hans-Eckardt Wenzel .

Works

Settings

  • Hans-Eckardt Wenzel: Street ballad - Wenzel sings Henriette Haill , Sailor Blue, 2008, ISBN 978-3-941155-00-8 (with 1 booklet: 12 pages)

literature

  • Franz Kain : Henriette Haill, in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter , 4th year (1964), No. 7/8, p. 119, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Rudolf Pfann: Dear Henriette Haill! , in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter , 7th year (1967), No. 5/6, pp. 78–79, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Peter Kammerstätter (ed.): Haill Henriette Jettl. 80 years. o. O. [Linz] o. J. [1984] (typescript)
  • Erich Hackl : The alphabet after Henriette Haill , in: With the accordion. Journal of Literature of Exile and Resistance. 12th year 1995, no . 2, ISSN  1563-3438 pp. 10–13 (again in this: In firm embrace. Stories and reports. Diogenes, Zurich 1996, pp. 274–289)
  • Erich Hackl: "The dust settles along the way ..." Obituary for Henriette Haill, in: Kultur Oberösterreich, monthly magazine of the Upper Austria. State cultural department 1996
  • Annamarie Forster: A forgotten angel. Henriette Haill's “Straßenballade” , in: Literatur und Critique , No. 307/308, September 1996, pp. 86–87
  • Christine Roiter : Henriette Haill - Approaching a forgotten angel . The other publishing house, Tönning 2006 ISBN 978-3-89959-546-8
  • "You're always on the move ..." Henriette Haill 1904–1996 . A documentation by the Linz KPÖ, edited and published by KPÖ Upper Austria, Linz 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Haill, Henriette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1996
Place of death Linz , Austria