Jeannie Ebner

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Jeannie Ebner (official name after marriage: Jeannie Allinger , born November 17, 1918 in Sydney / Australia , † March 16, 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer , translator and editor .

Life

Jeannie Ebner was born in Sydney on November 17, 1918 to Austrian parents, because her father Johann had emigrated to Australia at the age of seventeen. After the family returned to Austria , Jeannie Ebner grew up in Wiener Neustadt . She spent her youth in Weissenbach an der Triesting , and later processed these youthful experiences in literary terms. Her life was confronted with death at an early age: at the age of 8 she lost her father, seven years later her brother Hans died of protracted blood poisoning. She repeatedly took up this experience of loss, this disturbance of an intact children's world in her works, such as in the novels “Drei Flötentöne” and “Figures in Schwarz und Weiß” as well as in several stories. In Wiener Neustadt she attended a secondary school until 1933 , which she had to leave because her mother could no longer afford the school fees. She then completed an apprenticeship as a forwarding agent . From 1938 she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . During the Second World War , she ran her own forwarding company with 35 employees, which she lost after the war. From 1946 she lived in Vienna , where she worked as a stenographer for the US armed forces until 1949 . Jeannie Ebner began to write in her youth, officially she did so from 1952. Initially sponsored by Hans Weigel, she worked from then on as a freelance writer and translator from English. In addition to these activities, she worked from 1968 to 1978 as co-editor and editor of the literary magazine " Literatur und Critique ", where she was a mentor and discoverer of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann , Marlen Haushofer , Gerhard Fritsch , Thomas Bernhard and others. From 1974 to 1990 she was a member of the Cultural Senate of Lower Austria . In addition to the publication of her own 25 books and 36 translations, Jeannie Ebner was for years on the board of the LVG (Literary Verwertungsgesellschaft) and the literature group PODIUM as well as the PEN, the Writers' Association and the Austrian Society for Literature. Jeannie Ebner died on March 16, 2004 in the Liebhartstal sanatorium and was buried in Wiener Neustadt.

Jeannie Ebner wrote poetry and prose (her dramatic works were never published); her work, in which dreams and everyday reality often mix, was initially influenced by surrealism , later by ancient mythology and Christian symbolism. Also because of her participation in various literary bodies in Austria and her commitment to promoting young talent, Ebner is considered an important figure in Austrian post-war literature.

Jeannie Ebner was a member of the IG Authors Authors and the Austrian PEN Center . An extensive partial estate can be found in Vienna in the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

Awards, honors, prizes

Works

  • Singing to Today , Vienna 1952
  • You are waiting for an answer , Vienna [u. a.] 1954
  • The wilderness early summer , Cologne [u. a.] 1958
  • The King Tiger , Gütersloh 1959
  • The gods don't talk , Gütersloh 1961
  • In the shadow of the goddess , Graz [u. a.] 1963
  • Figures in black and white , Gütersloh 1964
  • Poems , Gütersloh 1965
  • Prose poems , Salzburg 1973
  • Protocol from an intermediate empire , Graz [u. a.] 1975
  • Poems and meditations , Baden near Vienna
    • 1 (1978)
    • 2 (1987)
  • I say , Cologne 1978
  • Frozen roses , Graz [a. a.] 1979
  • Three flute tones , Graz [a. a.] 1981
  • Aktäon , Graz [u. a.] 1983
  • The picture of the two sisters , Leipzig 1984
  • Driving paper boats , Graz [u. a.] 1987
  • Collected poems , Wiener Neustadt 1988
  • ... and has kept its secret , Graz [u. a.] 1991
  • Magician and Enchanted , Graz [a. a.] 1992
  • For the sake of accuracy , Graz [u. a.] 1993
  • Light-footed , Vienna 1993
  • Complete poems , Wiener Neustadt 1993
  • Escape and hiking routes , St. Pölten 1998
  • The new Penelope , Graz [u. a.] 1998
  • Jeannie Ebner. Light signals, selected poems, Podium, St. Pölten 2005, ISBN 978-3-902054-36-4 .

Translations

literature

  • Davis, Susan: Characterization Technique in the Works of Jeannie Ebner. University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, Diss. 1986.
  • Kleiber, Carine: Jeannie Ebner. An introduction. Vienna [ua]: Lang 1985. (= European university publications. German language and literature. 1.)
  • Mauhart, Claudia: Jeannie Ebner, a contemporary Austrian author , Salzburg 1989
  • Obermayer, August: Jeannie Ebner. In: Major figures of contemporary Austrian literature. Edited by Donald G. Daviau. New York [et al.]: Lang 1987. pp. 143-161.
  • Suchy, Viktor: The dream-headed one. Dream and reality in Jeannie Ebner's work. In: Studies on Austrian Literature. Edited by Viktor Suchy. Vienna: Documentation Center for Modern Austrian Literature 1992. (= Circular / Documentation Center for Modern Austrian Literature. 32.) pp. 259–272.
  • Wurzrainer, Edith: Topic constants in Jeannie Ebner's novels. Vienna, Univ., Dipl.-Arb. 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at - Vienna names the street after Maria Lassnig , article from April 8, 2016, accessed on April 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ebner, Jeannie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allinger, Jeannie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2004
Place of death Vienna