Ilse Tielsch
Ilse Tielsch , b. Felzmann (born March 20, 1929 in Auspitz ) is an Austrian writer.
biography
Ilse Tielsch is the daughter of Fritz Felzmann (1895–1980), a doctor, writer and musicologist. She grew up in Auspitz and attended high school in Nikolsburg . In April 1945, she fled from the approaching front and was welcomed to an Upper Austrian farm in Schlierbach . In Linz she sat from September 1945 visit to a school away and put 1948 in Vienna the Matura from.
In 1949 she acquired Austrian citizenship and in 1950 married the doctor Rudolf Tielsch, with whom she had four children. She lost two of her children early.
After studying newspaper science and German at the University of Vienna , she received her doctorate in 1953 for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit as a mirror of literary and cultural life in Vienna at the turn of the century. She worked for several daily and weekly newspapers and taught from 1955 to 1964 at a Viennese commercial vocational school. Since then she has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna.
The first books were published under the double name Tielsch-Felzmann; on the advice of Hans Weigel , she changed her surname to Tielsch in 1979.
She writes poetry , novels and prose . Tielsch is a member of the Austrian Writers' Association , the Austrian Society for Literature, the Austrian PEN Club and a founding member of the Podium literary group .
Under the impression of hatred and intolerance between peoples, Ilse Tielsch wrote a trilogy of novels (The Ancestral Pyramid, Searching for Home and The Fruits of Tears). In it she deals with the topic of the loss of homeland and the history of German-speaking Moravia.
Texts, poems and books by the author have so far been translated into 20 languages and published in 22 countries.
The Viennese publisher Edition Atelier has been reprinting selected works by Tielsch since 2017 . After her novel The Last Year , which first appeared in Edition Atelier in 2006, the first volume of her trilogy of novels, Die Ahnenpyramid and the second volume Heimatsuchen came out in 2019 .
Works
Poetry
- 1964 In my orange garden.
- 1967 autumn my sail. with colored woodcuts by Oskar Matulla , Tusch-Druck, Vienna 1967.
- 1970 Invocation of the Moon.
- 1975 rainy season.
- 1981 not provable.
- 1986 interim report.
- 1998 praise of strangeness.
- 2004 Selected Poems.
- 2010 thorn in the flesh. Selected poems - Cierń w ciele. Edited and with an afterword by Krzysztof Huszcza, with an essay on Ilse Tielsch's poetry by Barbara Neuwirth
- 2011 Sometimes a dream that tastes like salt. Collected poems. Published by Helmuth A. Niederle. edition pen vol. 1 published by Löcker Verlag, Vienna. ISBN 978-3-85409-630-6 .
Narrative prose
- 1969 South Moravian legends
- 1974 encounters in a Styrian snack bar , stories
- 1977 An elephant in our street , stories
- 1979 memory with trees , story
- 1980 The ancestral pyramid (novel trilogy I; 2019: new edition by the Austrian publisher Edition Atelier)
- 1982 Heimatsuchen (novel trilogy II; 2019: new edition by Edition Atelier)
- 1984 Stranger Beach , story
- 1987 The solitaire , story
- 1988 The Fruits of Tears (novel trilogy III, new edition announced by Edition Atelier for 2020)
- 1991 The destruction of the pictures
- 1999 A winter journey , prose
- 2000 August gives farmers the desire to have stories
- 2006 The last year , Roman, 2017: New edition by Edition Atelier with an afterword by Adolf Opel
- 2009 On the way. Travel notes and other notices
- 2014 About the freedom to write , Driesch Verlag, Drösing 2014, ISBN 978-3-902787-29-3
Essays and essays
- 1991 From my Egyptian diary
- 1993 writer? For God's sake! From writing and reading aloud
Radio plays
- 1970 The train does not stop in Bevignon , radio play
- 1971 A light in the fog
- 1971 burial of an old man
- 1996 conversation with the teacher Leopold H.
Prizes and awards
- 1964 Award of the Theodor-Körner-Foundation
- 1971 Boga Tinti Poetry Prize from the Concordia Press Club
- 1971 Appreciation Prize of the Province of Lower Austria f. literature
- 1975 Narrator Prize of the Author Colloquium a. Price d. Neheim-Hüsten student jury
- 1972 Honorary gift for the Andreas Gryphius Prize
- 1981 South Moravian Culture Prize
- 1983 Culture Prize of the Sudeten Germans
- 1987 Prize of the Harzburg Literature Days
- 1989 Andreas Gryphius Prize
- 1989 Anton Wildgans Prize
- 1989 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
- 1995 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Prize of the Goethe Foundation Basel
- 1998 beautiful stallion culture award
- 1998 Eichendorff Literature Prize
- 2000 Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
- 2017 Franz Theodor Csokor Prize for life's work
- several book awards from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Art
Web links
- official website
- Author portrait of the literature platform Podium
- German short story award
- Cultural Networking Lower Austria: Ilse Tielsch
- Cultural database of displaced persons
- Reading with Ilse Tielsch at the Gymnasium and Kolleg St. Matthias Wolfratshausen
- Literature by and about Ilse Tielsch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview at Podium Literatur.at , accessed on December 18, 2019
- ↑ a b c d e Information about the books on the publisher's website , accessed on December 18, 2019
- ↑ Announcement on the website of the Austrian PEN ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tielsch, Ilse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tielsch-Felzmann, Ilse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auspitz , South Moravia |