Margarete Kollisch
Margarete Kollisch ; (* December 9, 1893 in Vienna , † October 11, 1979 in Staten Island in New York City ); Austrian writer and poet in exile in the USA .
Live and act
Margarete Kollisch was the daughter of the Viennese lawyer Ignaz Moller (1859-1937) and Hermine Moller (1870-1928), née Bunzl-Federn. She studied New Philology in Vienna and passed her teaching examination in 1917 . She then worked as a journalist, teacher and translator. In 1923 she married the architect Otto Kollisch , the couple had three children: Eva , Peter and Stephan. In the early 1930s, literary works appeared for the first time in magazines and anthologies ( Badener Auslese 1930 ). Margarete Kollisch was a member of the Alpine Writers' Association founded by Richard Kühnelt in Baden in 1928 .
In July 1939 the children were able to take a Kindertransport to England , and in November of the same year Margarete Kollisch and her husband were able to flee to the USA . In April 1940 the children came to the USA.
She worked as a secretary for an antiquarian and trained as a therapeutic masseuse. She also gave French and German language lessons. She wrote poems, stories, fairy tales and had readings at the Austrian Institute , Austrian Forum and the Social Scientific Society as well as publications in Structure , Literature and Criticism , Lyrica Germanica , New Yorker Staatszeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , German-American Studies and several anthologies. In 1969 she received the Medal for Foreign Language Poetry from York College, City University of New York . She died in 1979 and her estate is in the University at Albany , Special Collections and Archives.
Her daughter is the New York based writer and literary scholar Eva Kollisch .
Works
- Paths and contemplation. Selected poems. Vienna 1960.
- Time lost. Poems and reflections. Vienna 1971.
- Flashback . Poems and prose. Vienna 1981.
Contributions to anthologies
- Minna Lachs (ed.): And send out her song . Vienna 1963.
- Mimi Grossberg (ed.): Cabaret from America . Vienna 1964.
- Austrian from America. Vienna 1973.
- Story in poem. The political poem of the fateful year 1938 by the Austro-American authors in exile . New York 1982.
Web links
- Literature by and about Margarete Kollisch in the catalog of the German National Library
- German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection in the ME Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany Libraries
- Margarete Kollisch Collection, AR 25058 Archive collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
literature
- Gabriele Kreis: Women in Exile. Düsseldorf 1984, pp. 103-106.
- Gert Niers: Women write in exile. On the work of the poets Margarete Kollisch, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss and Vera Lachmann who emigrated to America. Frankfurt / M. 1988. (Judaism and the Environment. 23.)
- Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kollisch, Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1979 |
| Place of death | new York |