Käthe Braun-Prager

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Käthe Braun-Prager (born February 12, 1888 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary as Katharina Maria Braun ; died June 18, 1967 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer and painter.

Life

Käthe Braun came from an Austrian-Jewish family. The mother, Karoline geb. Kohn, died giving birth to Käthe when her brother Felix was just three years old. The father married the mother's sister, Laura Kohn, a year later. Her brother Robert was born in 1896 . Very impressed by her grandfather Moritz Kohn , who wrote poetry, her older brother Felix wrote his first play at the age of 14, Die Kastellianerin , which has certainly also inspired Käthe from a literary point of view. The siblings had a lifelong emotional and spiritual relationship. Käthe Braun completed an apprenticeship at a secondary school for girls and passed the state examination in shorthand in 1907. In order to support the family financially, she worked as a private teacher and from 1907 as a private civil servant at the Creditanstalt in Vienna. Braun converted to the Protestant and later to the Catholic faith. She met the writer and philosopher Hans Prager , whom she married in 1917. In that year she also left the Creditanstalt in Vienna voluntarily. Their daughter Ulrike (Uli) was born three years later.

In February 1939, Käthe Braun-Prager emigrated to England with her stepmother, where they met their brother Felix. At that time, her husband and daughter had already emigrated to Paris. In England, she initially lived in Finsthwaite , which is in the county of Cumbria in north-west England, then in Kendal , and later in London . Her husband Hans died in Paris in 1940, weakened by various internment camps. While emigrating, she was already over 50 years old, Käthe Braun-Prager began to paint. At that time she gave lectures, worked as a craftsman, wrote short stories and poems, wrote aphorisms and worked as a translator. In 1951 she returned to Vienna with her brother Felix Braun and her stepmother.

Käthe Braun-Prager died in a hospital and was buried in the Ehrenhain in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Services

Braun-Prager worked as a freelance writer from 1920 and was ahead of her time in terms of society. She was in contact with many Viennese artists. Although she had to contribute to the family's livelihood, she wrote numerous poems, stories and aphorisms.

In 1928 Braun-Prager founded the “Literary Women’s Hour” on Radio Vienna, which she also directed until 1938. Lectures she gave were about famous Austrian women. She also published the works of Rosa Mayreder , with whom she was friends. She published her first volume of poetry in 1929.

In 1930 she led the “literary lecture evenings” at the Hotel de France in Vienna. Braun-Prager gave lectures on the broadcasters Breslau, Berlin and others. In the following years she also used the pseudonym Anna Maria Brandt for her work. At that time, she published many essays. After emigrating and returning, from 1951 Käthe Braun-Prager presented her pictures in Austria and other countries as part of collective exhibitions. Some of her pictures were acquired by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and the Austrian Gallery in Vienna.

To the work

In Braun-Prager's stories, motherliness, or mother, plays a central role in the most varied of variations. The stories are often about the typical, simple woman around 1900, who longs for security on the one hand, but also for freedom and independence. Or about the woman, as in the story “Peasant Wedding”, who, instead of giving herself to the unloved man, would rather die. A red thread of mystical fascination, melancholy and irony runs through her novels. Love, hate and the longing for death are the basic themes of her works.

Works and prices


Käthe Braun-Prager's grave site
  • Schattenflamme Lyric Visions by Käthe Braun-Prager, ed. With an afterword by T. Popović, Books on Demand, Norderstedt / Germany, November 2015
  • The City of Eternals and other short stories - Ed. T. Popović, Klagenfurt, Alekto, 2000
  • Quiet in the distance - Vienna, Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, 1972
  • The heavenly house of cards - Vienna, Munich, Verlag Jugend u. Volk, 1968
  • Love - Vienna, Zsolnay, 1968, Unabridged anniversary edition
  • Home away from home - Vienna, Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, 1968
  • And send out their song - Vienna, Verl. F. Youth and Volk, 1963
  • Die Mondwolke - Vienna, Austrian Publishing House , 1963
  • Homecoming - Vienna, Amandus-Verl., 1958
  • Transformed World - Innsbruck, Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, 1956
  • The Book of Mothers - Hamburg, Zsolnay, 1955
  • Journey to the vicinity - Salzburg, Stifterbibliothek, 1954
  • Love - Vienna, Zsolnay, 1953
  • Star in the snow - Vienna, Amandus-Verl., 1949
  • Awareness and insight - Vienna, Lányi, 1937, edition 1936
  • Great women from home - Vienna, Steyrermühl, 1936
  • Premature autumn - Vienna, Gerstel, 1932
  • At the candle - Darmstadt, Darmstädter Verl., 1929
1927 World premiere of the drama Anna Mayer in the Viennese actors' association "Sprungbrett"
1962 Performance of the dance play The Boy with the Rose

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Memberships:

  • Honorary member of the Lyceum Club
  • Board member of the Association of Women Writers and Artists in Austria
  • Member of the Vienna Women's Club
  • Member of the Austrian and English PEN clubs
  • Member of the Austrian Writers' Association
  • Member of Austria's Intellectual Creators
  • Member of the Grillparzer Society
  • awarded the honorary title of professor

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Braun-Prager, Käthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Katharina Maria; Brandt, Anna Maria (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1967
Place of death Vienna