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Hilde Maria Eva Spiel ( pseudonyms : Grace Hanshaw and Jean Lenoir ; born October 19, 1911 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 30, 1990 there ) was an award-winning Austrian writer , translator and journalist .

Life

Youth in Vienna

Hilde Spiel came from a family of assimilated upper-class Jews . Your paternal grandfather lived in the 1st district of the capital and worked here as a merchant. Her father Hugo F. Spiel was an engineer and an Austro-Hungarian officer during the First World War . For the first ten years of her life she lived in a garden apartment on Probusgasse in Heiligenstadt in the 19th district, where her mother's family had lived for generations, and then between Arenbergpark and Fasangasse in the 3rd district.

Studies and emigration

In 1928 - at the age of seventeen - Spiel made his debut in the Viennese coffee house scene . After graduation in the Schwarzwald school , where, among other Arnold Schoenberg , Adolf Loos and Oskar Kokoschka taught, she was worked for the daily newspaper Neue Freie Presse and studied at the Vienna University of Philosophy , among others, Moritz Schlick and Charlotte and Karl Buhler . In 1936 Hilde Spiel received her doctorate in philosophy. From 1933 to 1935 she worked at the Business Psychological Research Center at the University of Vienna, in 1933 she joined the Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party , which was banned in 1934, and wrote her first two novels Kati auf der Brücke , for which she was awarded the "Julius Reich Prize" and confusion am Wolfgangsee . During the workers' uprising in 1934, Spiel first thought about exile. In 1936, Hilde Spiel and the writer Peter de Mendelssohn married . The couple emigrated to London in the same year because of anti-Semitic politics in Austria . Some of her stories, translated by her husband, were published in the Daily Express . The marriage had two children, a daughter born on October 31, 1940 and a son Felix de Mendelssohn born in 1944 . Hilde Spiel became a British citizen in 1941, and from 1944 she worked as an essayist for the New Statesman newspaper.

Commuter

On 30./31. In January 1946 she flew to Vienna as a war correspondent for this paper in uniform in a British military plane. Her resolution was: “I will compare my present life with my past, test my loyalty and subject my emotional faculties to an experiment.” In Vienna she met u. a. the Austrian painter Josef Dobrowsky , the Communist City Councilor for Culture Viktor Matejka and the young cultural critic Hans Weigel , who had returned from exile, and went to the legendary Herrenhof literary café ; Excursions took them to Carinthian refugee camps and to Udine, which was also occupied by the British at the time .

On March 7, 1946, she flew back to London, where she built a syndicate for cultural reports and worked for a number of newspapers and radio stations. She wrote down the notes she made about her observations in Vienna as a travel report, which she only translated into German many years later: it was published in 1968 under the title Return to Vienna . According to one review, the report was “introspection and city observation rolled into one, a mixture of personal and historical snapshots. Everything was written in the crystal clear, straightforward style of poetic-analytical precision that was typical for Spiel so early on. ”In 1946 she came“ to the continent ”three more times ( Paris , Budapest , Brixen , Nuremberg ) and soon afterwards settled in Berlin until 1948 . Here she worked as a theater critic for the world and for the leaves The New Statesman and Nation , La France Libre , the Berlin Tagesspiegel and the weekly magazine they worked.

After her return to Great Britain, Spiel worked as a cultural correspondent for the Neue Zeitung , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Tagesspiegel , the Weltwoche , the Guardian , Theater heute and for the radio . In the post-war period she was one of the most important literary critics in German-speaking countries and helped u. a. Heimito von Doderer made a breakthrough. For decades she had a conflicted relationship with Elias Canetti and Friedrich Torberg .

Return to Austria

Grave of the Flesch-Brunningen and Spiel families in the Bad Ischl cemetery

Since 1955 she had a second home in St. Wolfgang . In 1963 she finally returned to Austria, where she continued to work as a cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and published several volumes of essays and her memoirs. After separating from Peter de Mendelssohn in 1963 and divorcing in 1970, she was married from 1972 to 1981 to the writer and retired BBC employee Hans Flesch von Brunningen († 1981). In the 1980s, she spent another year in London as a correspondent for the FAZ .

Hilde Spiel was a member of the Austrian PEN Club, of which she was General Secretary from 1966 to 1971. In 1971 she took over the position of Vice President and, after Alexander Lernet-Holenias resigned in 1972 and at his suggestion, stood for election as President. However, this election was prevented by an initiative mainly run by Friedrich Torberg. Torberg, who repeatedly referred to the game as their "friend-enemy" ( frenemy ), tried to persuade some of his friends to publish against Hilde Spiel. When she left the Vienna Center in protest, she moved to the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany and continued to work for the International PEN Club, in which she and Heinrich Böll were involved in the Writers in Prison Committee. She also belonged to the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.

Like her second husband Hans Flesch von Brunningen, Hilde Spiel was buried in the cemetery in Bad Ischl , where her parents are also buried. The parents owned a villa in Bad Ischl. The tombstone names her as Hilde Maria Flesch-Brunningen . Hilde Spiel's estate is kept in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library in Vienna.

Services

In addition to her journalistic work, Hilde Spiel wrote novels, short stories and historical non-fiction books. She has also emerged as a translator of numerous English novels and plays (e.g. Tom Stoppard , James Saunders , WH Auden and Graham Greene ).

Awards and honors

Works

Novels, short stories, smaller writings

  • The little boy Desider . Vienna 1929 (submission to the youth prize competition of the Neue Freie Presse ; acquired for publication, but not awarded a prize because the author had exceeded the age limit by one year at the time)
  • Kati on the bridge . Berlin u. a. 1933.
    New edition: Edition Atelier, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902498-58-8 .
  • The chain. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 25310 A / 1935, February 27, 1935, p. 5. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  • Confusion at the Wolfgangsee . Leipzig u. a. 1935
  • Flute and drums . Vienna 1947
  • The park and the wilderness . Munich 1953
  • London . Munich 1956 (together with Elisabeth Niggemeyer )
  • Sir Laurence Olivier . Berlin 1958
  • World in reflection . Munich 1960
  • Fanny von Arnstein or The Emancipation . Frankfurt am Main 1962
  • Lisa's room . Munich 1965
  • In love with Döbling . Vienna u. a. 1965 (together with Franz Vogler )
  • Return to Vienna . Munich 1968
  • Vienna . Munich 1971
  • Cities and people . Vienna 1971b
  • Small steps . Munich 1976
  • Mirko and Franca . Munich 1980
  • The fruits of prosperity . Munich 1981
  • Strolling in my garden . Munich 1981
  • English views . Stuttgart 1984
  • Location determination . Weilheim 1984
  • The Man in the Cap and Other Stories . Bergisch Gladbach 1985
  • The tree crime . Stuttgart 1987
  • Vienna's golden autumn . London 1987
  • Anna and Anna . Vienna 1988
  • Venice, theater of dreams . Munich 1988 (together with Giosanna Crivelli and Thomas Klinger )
  • The bright and the dark times - memories 1911–1946 . List, Munich 1989
  • What world is my world? Munich u. a. 1990
  • The demonia of comfort . Munich 1991
  • The poet's house. Literary essays, interpretations, reviews . List, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-471-78632-5 .
  • Hilde Spiel - the grande dame . Göttingen 1992 (together with Anne Linsel )
  • Correspondence . Munich u. a. 1995

Editing

  • England tells . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1960
  • William Shakespeare, King Richard III Frankfurt / M. u. a. 1964
  • The Vienna Congress in eyewitness reports . Düsseldorf 1965
  • The contemporary literature of Austria . Zurich u. a. 1976

Translations into German

  • Nigel Balchin : Eleven years and one day . Hamburg 1952
  • Elizabeth Bowen : A World of Love . Cologne u. a. 1958
  • James M. Cain : The bill without the landlord . Hamburg 1950 (together with Peter de Mendelssohn)
  • Peter de Mendelssohn : fortress in the clouds . Zurich 1946 (together with Peter de Mendelssohn)
  • William Macneile Dixon : The Situation of Man . Munich 1963
  • Rumer Godden : Ancient the wind from the Himalayas . Hamburg 1952
  • Graham Greene : Will you loan us your husband? . Vienna u. a. 1967
  • Graham Greene: The Comedians' Hour . Vienna u. a. 1966
  • Thomas Kilroy : Death and Resurrection of Lord Roche in Dublin . Reinbek near Hamburg 1968
  • Hugh Leonard : The man for everything . Reinbek near Hamburg 1967
  • Mary McCarthy : A bolt from the blue . Munich u. a. 1970 (translated together with Maria Dessauer )
  • Edna O'Brien : Virginia . Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • Joe Orton : Be nice to Mr. Sloane. Prey . Reinbek near Hamburg 1967
  • James Saunders : Farewell Canon . Reinbek near Hamburg 1974
  • James Saunders: Better times . Reinbek near Hamburg 1990
  • James Saunders: A scent of flowers. An unfortunate coincidence. Who was Mr. Hilary? Neighbors . Reinbek near Hamburg 1967
  • James Saunders: Fall . Reinbek near Hamburg 1982
  • James Saunders: Crazy Old World . Reinbek near Hamburg 1976
  • James Saunders: Body and Soul . Reinbek near Hamburg 1978
  • James Saunders: Michael Kohlhaas . Reinbek near Hamburg 1973
  • James Saunders: The Schoolmaster . Reinbek near Hamburg 1990
  • James Saunders: Games . Reinbek near Hamburg 1971
  • James Saunders: ... and what's next? . Reinbek near Hamburg 1970
  • James Saunders: birdsong . Reinbek near Hamburg 1980
  • Tom Stoppard : acrobats . Reinbek near Hamburg 1973
  • Tom Stoppard: The real deal . Reinbek near Hamburg 1983
  • Tom Stoppard: Travesties . Reinbek near Hamburg 1976
  • Jack White : Who's asking about finches? . Reinbek near Hamburg 1971
  • Emlyn Williams : The light hearted are . Munich 1983
  • Angus Wilson : More of a friend than a lodger . Frankfurt am Main 1961
  • Angus Wilson: What lovely birds . Wiesbaden 1958

items

Translations into English

  • Alfred Schmeller: Cubism . London 1961
  • Alfred Schmeller: Surrealism . London 1961

Appreciation

Blackboard in the Hilde Spiel-Park in Vienna

The Hilde-Spiel-Park in the 19th district of Vienna was named after her.

literature

  • Gerhard Benetka: Game, Hilde. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 701f.
  • Bettina Hawlitschek: Escape routes from patriarchal petrification. Gender roles and gender relationships in Hilde Spiel's early work . Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus 1997. (= women in the history of literature; 8) ISBN 3-8255-0140-X
  • Christa Victoria Howells: Home and Exile. Your dynamism in the work of Hilde Spiel . Ann Arbor, Mich .: UMI 1998.
  • Bettina Krammer: Who is Lisa L. Curtis? Manifestation of the hysterical character structure as well as the emigration and addiction problems with Lisa Leitner Curtis in "Lisa's Room" by Hilde Spiel . Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 1998. (= European University Papers; Series 1, German Language and Literature; 1686) ISBN 3-631-32663-7
  • Hans A. Neunzig, Ingrid Schramm (Ed.): Hilde game. Citizen of the world of literature . Vienna: Zsolnay 1999. (= Profile; Vol. 2, H. 3) ISBN 3-552-04895-2
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Talking about Hilde game . Munich: List 1991. ISBN 3-471-78549-3
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki: About Hilde Spiel . Munich: dtv 1998. (= dtv; 12530) ISBN 3-423-12530-6
  • Ingrid Schramm:  Game, Hilde Maria Eva. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 685 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Waltraud Strickhausen: The narrator Hilde Spiel or "The far throw in the darkness" . New York et al. a .: Lang 1996. (= exile studies; 3) ISBN 0-8204-2623-7
  • Sandra Wiesinger-Stock: Hilde game. A life without a home? Wien: Verl. Für Gesellschaftskritik 1996. (= Biographical Texts on Cultural and Contemporary History; 16) ISBN 3-85115-233-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hilde Spiel: return to Vienna. A diary , 1st edition Nymphenburger, Munich 1968, 2nd edition Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85286-177-7 , p. 57.
  2. ^ Game: Return , pp. 23–53.
  3. ↑ Michael Horowitz: Eternal commuter and Viennese citizen of the world . Ed .: Die Presse. Vienna January 6, 2018, p. 16 .
  4. ↑ Game: Return , p. 104 f.
  5. ↑ Catalog slip at the University Library Vienna
  6. ↑ Hilde Spiel: The bright and the dark times. Memoirs 1911–1946 . 2nd edition List, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-471-78632-5 , p. 187 + p. 201.
  7. ↑ Game: Return , p. 6.
  8. ↑ Game: Return , p. 13.
  9. ↑ Game: Return , pp. 71–125.
  10. ^ Hilde Spiel (1911-1990) writer. In: Austrian National Library - Literature Archive. 2018, accessed January 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Julia Kospach: When Vienna's female Proust returned home after the war . Falter , No. 32, 2009, August 5, 2009, p. 16, review.
  12. ↑ Jochen Hieber: Only write good things about Doderer . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. (Pictures and times, October 15, 2011)
  13. ^ Hillary Hope Herzog: Vienna is different - Jewish Writers in Austria from the fin de siècle to the present . In: Austria and Habsburg Studies . tape 12 . Bergbahn Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-78238-049-8 , pp. 212 .
  14. ^ Crypt in the Bad Ischl cemetery
  15. ↑ The youth prize competition of the "Neue Freie Presse". In:  Neue Freie Presse , October 4, 1929, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
personal data
SURNAME Game, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grace Hanshaw (pseudonym); Jean Lenoir (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1990
Place of death Vienna