Maria Erlenberger

Maria Erlenberger (* around 1948) is a German-speaking writer .

Life

Maria Erlenberger is a pseudonym ; To date, no further information is available about the person behind it. From the author's texts alone it can be concluded that she was around thirty years old when her first book was published and is probably Austrian .

Maria Erlenberger caused a sensation in 1977 with her psychiatry-critical and feminist debut Der Hunger nach Wahnsinn . In it she describes in a radical way how she starves herself to death almost to death in protest against her role as a woman and is admitted to a psychiatric institution with the diagnosis of " schizophrenia " . Her second novel is a continuation of the highly subjective portrayal of personal experiences during pregnancy and when trying to teach her son outside the state school system himself. After a volume with lyrical prose, Erlenberger published a utopian novel with Singende Erde and a story about a chaotic episode in the literary business with “Hope for Recall” . Since 1984 Maria Erlenberger, who was awarded the promotion prize of the literature prize of the city of Bremen in 1978 , fell silent.

Works

• The hunger for madness. A report (= The New Book. 84). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-499-25084-5 .
• Learning the stillbirth. Roman (= The new book. 124). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-499-25124-8 .
• I wanna be to blame A collection of thoughts (= the new book. 134). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-499-25134-5 .
• Singing earth. A utopian novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-498-01620-2 .
• Hope to remember. Story (= The New Book. 171). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-25171-X .
• Awakening to the deleted dream. In Horst Heidtmann (ed.): In search of the garden of Eden. Signal-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1984, ISBN 3-7971-0235-6 , pp. 38-49.

literature

• Bettina Blanck: Anorexia in literature. On the problem of female identity. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-88323-353-6 .
• Hans Krieger : In the loneliness of the brain . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/1977
• Reiner Gödtel: Learning to be stillborn . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1980 ( online review).

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Erlenberger in the catalog of the German National Library