Imma Bodmershof
Imma von Bodmershof (born as Imma von Ehrenfels ; * August 10, 1895 in Graz , † August 26, 1982 at Rastbach Castle in Gföhl , Lower Austria) was an Austrian writer.
Life
The daughter of one of the pioneers and precursors of the Gestalt theory, Christian von Ehrenfels and Emma von Hartmann, grew up in the Waldviertel at Lichtenau Castle , but also spent a lot of time in Prague, where her father worked at the university. She studied art history, philosophy and graphology at the universities in Prague and Munich.
She was engaged to the Hölderlin researcher Norbert von Hellingrath , through whom she also came into contact with Rainer Maria Rilke and Stefan George . However, Hellingrath fell in 1916 in the Battle of Verdun . In 1925 she married Wilhelm von Bodmershof , a doctor of economics and religious studies with a focus on Far Eastern religions, and together with her husband managed the estate of Rastbach Castle . She also lived temporarily in Vienna.
From 1937 onwards she published novels and stories tied to tradition and her homeland. Bodmershof mainly used the three-line Japanese poem form of haiku . To this end, she maintained an intensive exchange of ideas with the Japanese literary scholar Yukio Kotani . Her culturally pessimistic correspondence with Martin Heidegger from 1959–1976 was published in 2000 by Klett-Cotta.
She was buried in the Moritzreith cemetery.
Awards
- Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (1958)
- Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria (1965)
- Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class (1969)
- City of Vienna Prize for Literature (1969)
Works
- 1937 - The Second Summer (novel), Suhrkamp, Berlin 1943
- 1939 - The city in Flanders (novel)
- 1939 - The beard removal -, from Loeper, Karlsruhe 1982
- 1942 - Encounter in Spring (story), Verlag von Loeper, Karlsruhe 1985, ISBN 3-88652-602-X
- 1943 - The Seasons: Twenty-five masterpieces of ancient book illumination
- 1944 - The Rosse des Urban Roithner -, Donauland book club, Vienna 1984
- 1950 - Seven handfuls of salt (Roman), Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten 1984
- 1952 - The lost sea (revised novel, published in 1939 under "Die Stadt in Flandern"), Herold, Vienna 1952
- 1953 - As long as it is day -, Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, Innsbruck 1953
- 1962 - Under eight winds
- 1962 - Haiku
- 1973 - sundial
- 1980 - Jasmin blooms in someone else's garden: 99 Haiku (volume of poems), Verlag der Arche, Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7160-1658-6
- 1982 - Ibarra's beard removal
- Editions
- 1986 - Imma Bodmershof: Collected works in individual editions (4 volumes) -, Verlag von Loeper, Karlsruhe 1986, ISBN 3-88652-005-6
- 2000 - Martin Heidegger & Imma von Bodmershof: Correspondence 1959 - 1976 -, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-94265-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Conrad Miesen: On the 30th anniversary of Imma von Bodmershof's death PDF ( 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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Imma Bodmershof in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Imma Bodmershof in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Bert Willens: Imma von Bodmershof and the German Haiku
- Entry on Imma Bodmershof in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bodmershof, Imma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | from Bodmershof, Imma; von Ehrenfels, Imma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1982 |
| Place of death | Gföhl |