Johanna Jonas-Lichtenwallner

Johanna Jonas-Lichtenwallner (actually Johanna Jonas ; born on September 5, 1914 in Vienna ; died on June 12, 2002 there ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Jonas grew up in the Waldviertel . After studying German, history, philosophy and religious studies at the University of Vienna , she organized and directed literary events and adult education courses for two decades. She was the first chairwoman of the Vienna Women's Club and was a board member in numerous domestic and foreign clubs and associations. In 1965 she published her first volume of poetry and in the following years numerous other volumes of poetry, books for young people and children, novels and collections of sagas. She also worked as an editor of anthologies.

Appreciations

• 1965 Recognition award for youth book from the Austrian Central Savings Bank
• 1976 Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1979 Huldreich Büttner Prize

Works

• Way through time. Poetry. Vienna 1965.
• The Easter miracle. Novel. Vienna 1970.
• The fault of Lina Besenböck. Novel. Vienna 1971.
• Mühlviertel legends. Krems & Vienna 1971.
• The hourglass. Poetry. Vienna & St. Pölten 1972.
• Viennese side lights. Vienna 1973.
• Waldviertel. Poetry. Salzburg 1974.
• The hunter of Birkwald. Novel. Wildenwart 1974.
• Speck of dust in the room. Poetry. Vienna 1976.
• Silhouettes. Poetry. Vienna 1976.
• The improbable things. Features, essays, glosses. Vienna 1977.
• Song of the grasses . Poetry. Vienna & St. Pölten 1978.
• Aphorisms. Vienna 1985.
• Irmengardis. Novel. St. Ottilien 1985.
• Late songs. Vienna 1986.
• Dutch sketches. Vienna 1988.
• Meditations and thoughts. Poetry. Vienna 1992.
• Late elegies. Vienna 1997.
• Experiences and results. Vienna 1998.

as editor:

• How wise do you have to be to always be good. An anthology of contemporary Austrian women's poetry. Steyr 1972.
• Location regulations. Anthology of young Austrian authors. Vienna 1978.
• With mystics into the third millennium. Vienna 1989.

literature

• Christine Schmidjell: Jonas-Lichtenwallner, Johanna. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Edition. Volume 6, de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, p. 188.
• Helga Helnwein (Ed.): In memoriam Prof. Johanna Jonas-Lichtenwallner. Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-901156-33-8 .
• A life for poetry. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Professor Johanna Jonas-Lichtenwallner. Toman, Vienna 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johanna Jonas-Lichtenwallner in the catalog of the German National Library