Liselotte Buchenauer

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Liselotte Buchenauer (born December 20, 1922 in Graz ; † April 25, 2003 ibid) was an Austrian mountaineer , mountain writer and journalist . Liselotte Buchenauer was a graduate of the commercial academy . After graduating from high school , she worked for various companies, most recently in the accounting office of the City of Graz. She was the niece of the Austrian mountaineer and cave explorer Theodor Kabrhel, who was involved in the development of the Dachstein giant ice cave .

The alpinist

Even as a child, she accompanied her mother on Sundays on many hikes, during which they often covered up to 30 kilometers a day because they could not afford the tram tickets and were already wandering through the city. She also started climbing at an early age and conducted tours up to difficulty level IV-V . You can definitely call her the protagonist of great Austrian alpinists. In 1948 she and Johann Fruhmann successfully climbed the shrine for the first time in the southern Schladminger Tauern . In 1949 she and Grete Weiß, born in Hochschwab, Satori, the first ascent of the east face of the Kleiner Brandstein and, with Max Puntigam, the first ascent of the Kleiner Türndl over the southeast ridge.

She has noted over three thousand mountain tours and summits in her tour book, including ten new tours, first-time tourist ascents and some early repetitions of climbing routes. Due to the external circumstances of the time, the "world mountains" were denied her. The Alps offered her ample substitute.

Buchenauer's great love was for areas that promised solitude and authenticity, such as the Niedere Tauern , the Schober group or the Hochschwab area .

Author

Liselotte Buchenauer's father Hanns was already able to publish in some magazines, especially during the First World War , for example in the Tyrolean Schlern writings, which were well known at the time. In the thirties of the last century he worked on the later successful novel “Today Counts of Cilly and Nevermore” by the author Anna Warmbrechtsamer, a friend of Graz. However, Hanns Buchenauer never allowed himself to be named as a co-author.

As an author, Liselotte Buchenauer wrote mainly alpine monographs. Her first work, Hochschwab , appeared in 1960 and has quickly become a bestseller . Her other works such as Gentle Kuppen - schroffe Berge (1977), Hohe Tauern , 2 volumes (1980/1981), Carnic Alps (1986) or A Life with the Mountains (1991) were published several times.

Buchenauer also worked for some alpine magazines, such as Land der Berge , author of Alpine Club guides and freelance work for the Kärntner Tageszeitung and Neue Zeit, Graz. In addition, between 1955 and 1987 she made numerous radio programs on ORF , Radio Steiermark and Radio Tirol . Her main work therefore also consists of several thousand contributions and articles for radio, daily newspapers and mountain magazines in Austria and Germany and the collaboration on books by other authors and editorial activities.

What also makes Buchenauer's books so valuable is the fact that the Graz native highlights forgotten alpine literary figures such as Gustav Renker and Frido Kordon (Fridolin Anton Kordon-Veri).

Even in old age she was a contentious author, who was present in Austrian daily newspapers through pointed articles in the form of letters to the editor.

Liselotte Buchenauer died at the age of 80 and found her final resting place in the Protestant cemetery in Graz-Neuhart .

Language and style

Your mountain books often lead far beyond the purely technical tour descriptions that are customary today to very personal alpine monographs. Occasionally she used refreshing Austriaticisms , which were also found extensively in relevant dictionaries. (cf. Dictionary der Austrianzismen, Walter Klöpffer, 2000) Already at the beginning of her literary career she was recognized by critics as having "word power", as was the successful mixture of her representations of poetry and information, as well as versatile ability in which feather-light reflections with depth are also possible are like the difficult art of essays and feature pages . Even humor never came at her briefly.

Stylistically, she has often been compared to Julius Kugy . In her Styrian homeland also with Peter Rosegger .

Liselotte Buchenauer was considered one of the most productive German-speaking mountain writers. She wrote 17 books.

Others

Further selection of works

  • On lonely mountains , 1964
  • Hiking in Styria , 1971 (at that time the first Styrian hiking book for almost 50 years)
  • Mountain hiking in Styria , 1974 (continuation of Hiking in Styria)
  • In love with home , 1975 (Niedere Tauern with Schladminger and Radstädter Tauern. First mountain monograph)
  • Carinthian hiking book , 1976 (employee Wilfried Gallin; at that time the first Carinthian hiking book for 50 years)
  • Alpine club leader Ankogel-Goldberggruppe , 1976
  • Little Guide through the Eisenerzer Alps , 1978 (From an incomplete manuscript by the Styrian mountaineer Hermann Scharfetter)
  • Experiences with animals , 1986 (together with her friend, the Austrian dialect poet Martha Wölger )
  • Höhenwege in the Niedere Tauern , 1987
  • Höhenwege in the Hohe Tauern , 1988
  • Hikes in Carinthia: 70 tours and other suggested routes , 1994 (Wolfgang Heitzmann and Liselotte Buchenauer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Liselotte Buchenauer
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personal data
SURNAME Buchenauer, Liselotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian alpinist, mountain writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2003
Place of death Graz