Ilse Helbich

Ilse Helbich (born October 22, 1923 in Vienna ) is an Austrian publicist and writer .

Life

Ilse Helbich grew up in Vienna, did her doctorate in German and worked as a publishing clerk. She was married for over three decades and is the mother of five children. She worked for various daily newspapers and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation , for which she wrote numerous radio programs .

In 1985 Ilse Helbich acquired the Alte Post in the center of Schönberg am Kamp , which it renovated. The history of this house, interwoven with autobiographical elements, was written down by Ilse Helbich, who only turned to prose in the late 1980s, in the novel Das Haus (2009).

Ilse Helbich lives in Schönberg am Kamp and in Vienna .

Awards

• 2018: Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Appreciation Prize in the Literature Section

Works

• Swallow script. A life from Vienna , Libelle Verlag (2003) ISBN 978-3-909081-96-7
• Actual status. Seven Stories from Late Life (2007) ISBN 978-3-85409-461-6
• Das Haus Roman (2009) ISBN 978-3-85420-762-7
• Strangers. Stories (2010) ISBN 978-3-85420-774-0
• Borderland intermediate land. Explorations (2012) ISBN 978-3-85420-796-2
• Vineta (2013) ISBN 978-3-85420-845-7
• Meltings (2015) ISBN 978-3-85420-964-5
• In the Walk: Poems (2017) ISBN 978-3-99059-002-7
• Two stories of happiness (2018) ISBN 978-3-900-678-41-8
• I would like to be a stranger again somewhere (2019) ISBN 978-3-902717-51-1
• This Side (2020) ISBN 978-3-99059-050-8

Web links

• Short story "The white horse" by Ilse Helbich in: Der Standard, October 5, 2015
• Review by Julia Kospach in: FALTER 39/2015
• Interview with Ilse Helbich in: Der Standard, October 27, 2013
• Review by Karl-Markus Gauss in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 22, 2013
• Text by Ilse Helbich at the "Old School - Learning from Old" festival in the Kampnagel factory in Hamburg in: NZZ, May 24, 2013
• Interview with Ilse Helbich in: Die Presse, March 13, 2010
• Ö1 Menschenbilder on December 1st, 2013: "Schwalbenschrift" - The writer Ilse Helbich
• Literature by and about Ilse Helbich in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Helbich turns 95 and receives a culture award . Article dated October 19, 2018, accessed October 19, 2018.
2. ↑ Author Ilse Helbich receives culture award from the state of Lower Austria . Article dated October 18, 2018, accessed October 19, 2018.