Marianne Fritz

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Marianne Fritz (née Frieß ; born December 14, 1948 in Weiz / Styria , † October 1, 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Born in Styria Marianne Fritz put on after training for office worker on the second chance the Matura from. She lived and worked as a freelance writer, financially dependent on scholarships, in modest circumstances in Vienna . She shied away from dealing with the public, apart from her literary work, little is known about her résumé. In the 1970s she was married to the writer Wolfgang Fritz .

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Marianne Fritz died on October 1st, 2007 at the age of 58 in the General Hospital in Vienna of a serious blood disease. She was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 40, No. 79). On November 27, 2014, the Marianne Fritz Park was opened in Vienna's new building.

The novels by Marianne Fritz

Beginnings

Marianne Fritz received the Robert Walser Prize for her first publication, the 1978 novel Die Schwerkraft der Zeiten . It tells the story of a child murderer who, tormented by external circumstances, only finds protection against the environment she perceives as frightening in an asylum and with the loss of her language.

The "fortress project"

Since then she has worked on a major literary project, which she has given the working title Die fortress and which literarily thematizes the history of the first and second republic of Austria.

The novel The Child of Violence and the Stars of the Romani , published in 1980 and set in 1921, depicts conflicts that arise after the rape of a Roma woman in an Austrian village, but at the same time takes up the fate of the villagers and thus provides a comprehensive picture the time that extends over the plot.

Whose language you don't understand

In 1985 a twelve-volume novel was published under the programmatic title Whose language you do not understand , which, based on the year 1914, exemplarily focuses on the history of the proletarian family "Null" from the market town "Nirgendwo". This central subject is accompanied by hundreds of other, exclusively proletarian main and secondary characters, so that over 3000 pages a complex picture of a historically fixable, but at the same time a partially mythologized parallel world emerges. The goal remains to strive for a historiography that captures those who are usually only dragged along as objects in the stream of events. Correspondingly, Marianne Fritz uses an idiosyncratic formal and narrative language that breaks the usual boundaries of genres and general linguistic conventions and leaves them far behind. It uses an unusual sentence structure, changes punctuation rules, whereby new levels of meaning are assigned to the sentence, omits articles and the like. The history of the otherwise nameless thereby receives its own language and differs from that of official historiography.

Naturally

The first two parts of the three-departments continuation Naturally Marianne Fritz continued to pursue their style consistently, but you wanted it follow only a few readers. As early as the publication of Natural I. Either Fear Sweat Ohnend Or Pluralhaft (1996), which was presented in five volumes, the FAZ critic spoke of a "ruined sentence" and a "Disneyland of deconstruction", also Natural II. A rose sprang from it / Wedernoch / her name (1998) evoked alienation. Both volumes, in which the geographical and temporal framework of the fortress project is expanded, appeared in the facsimile of the typescript; italics, underlining, changing typefaces, maps, formulas and marginal notes overgrow the text. Since 1998 Marianne Fritz worked on the third part, which she could not finish until her death.

meaning

  • Elfriede Jelinek told the newspaper “Falter” (36/2003) : “It is a singular work that you can only stand in front of like a devout Muslim in front of the Kaaba. On the whole, I am probably too small for Marianne Fritz, she does not go into me. "
  • The Germanist Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler wrote in the daily newspaper Der Standard on October 10, 2000: "Every word that is uttered in praise of this author raises the counter-question whether this form of praise is also true. The work of Marianne Fritz compels continually reviewing our criteria, and it becomes a challenge for the criticism, or better: it should become a challenge, because the criticism has not yet accepted it, partly out of convenience, partly out of lack of understanding. [...] If you let yourself be drawn to the text, you will feel little of the difficulties that worried critics or worried teachers talk you into. And it would be time not to emphasize how extensive, but how easy to get along with Marianne Fritz's texts. "
  • On April 19, 2001, on the occasion of the 2001 Franz Kafka Prize being awarded to Marianne Fritz, Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler said in an ORF TV interview: "I consider this to be one of the most important prose works of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. I believe that Austrian history is more present in this text than in almost any other, and in a form that is unmistakable. I believe it made one of the most accurate diagnoses of the two great wars of the last century, especially the First World War, and if I may say so, that's what constitutes the essential fascination for me. ... I think these texts have a future, maybe not today, not tomorrow, but certainly the day after tomorrow. "
  • The writer Gerhard Henschel judged Fritz 'work negatively. In the 3/1999 issue of the satirical magazine Titanic , published in Frankfurt / Main, he discussed "Natur according II" as follows: "If you want to read" Natur according to II ", you have to turn the volume like a steering wheel (..) But not just the graphic arbitrariness, too the prose provokes feelings of dizziness. (..) Whoever writes in this way reckons with disciples, not readers. And whoever submits 2714 pages of novels in this style to mankind has switched from artistic to terrorist. "

Fritz point

Since 2002, the Stadttheater Wien has organized a permanent series of theater performances, public appropriations, performative installations, media projects, reading series, lectures and actions in public space on the work of Marianne Fritz under the name Fritzpunkt. B. in the context of steirischer autumn 2008 and 2010.

The Fritz maneuver, an exercise for an emergency, one of the examples of this dispute, consisted in an attempt to gather 1,357 people in the Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel wilderness in Vienna to read a double page from the novel Natur according to II simultaneously, which is roughly 10 minutes the entire novel could be mastered. On September 11, 2006, a few hundred literature enthusiasts came together for the first "Exercise for an Emergency".

In December 2010 the theater collective Fritzpunkt installed the fragmentary operation "Textgelände Wien" in the Austrian capital. The hitherto unpublished fragment of the novel "Natur according III" by the author Marianne Fritz was the starting material for actions of various genres, which were realized by temporary Fritz interpreters from December 1 to 12, 2010 in both public and private spaces .

On December 14th, 2011, the 63rd birthday of the author, the theater collective Fritzpunkt published the novel fragment Natur according to III (Or maybe / Noli me tangere / "Rührmichnichtan!") As an online version at www.mariannefritz.at.

Works

  • The force of gravity. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1978. (= Collection S. Fischer Volume 4.) ISBN 3-596-22304-0 .
  • The child of violence and the stars of the Romani. Novel. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1980. ISBN 3-10-022903-7 .
  • What should you do there. An introductory volume to the novel Whose language you don't understand . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1985, ISBN 3-518-03216-X .
  • Whose language you do not understand (three volume edition). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1985. ISBN 3-518-03562-2 .
  • Whose language you do not understand (edition in twelve volumes). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1985. ISBN 3-518-09706-7 .
  • Naturally I. Either sweaty sweat / lacking / or plural (five volumes); Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1996. 3-518-40789-9.
  • Naturally II. A rose has sprung out / Wedernoch / it's called (five volumes); Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1998. ISBN 3-518-40992-1 .
  • Naturally III. Or maybe / Noli me tangere / "Don't touch me!" [1] , online version, Vienna 2011.

Awards

literature

  • Thomas Beckermann: Marianne Fritz: "whose language you do not understand". In: manuskripte 92 (1986) pp. 83-85.
  • Michael Fisch: Powerful words: On the death of Marianne Fritz. When will Natural III finally appear ? In: Die Berliner Literaturkritik of March 7, 2008. Online at: http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/detailseite/artikel/wortgewaltig-zum-tod-von-marianne-fritz.html .
  • Klaus Kastberger (Hrsg.): Zero story, which was anyway / New Vienna Symposium on Marianne Fritz . Vienna: special number 1985. ISBN 3-85449-080-1 .
  • Klaus Kastberger: Knowledge battles: The fortress of Marianne Fritz . In: Ders., On the obstinacy of writing. Modes of production of modern Austrian literature . Vienna: special number 1997, pp. 308–358. ISBN 3-85449-269-3 .
  • Klaus Kastberger , Helmut Neundlinger (eds.): Marianne Fritz Archive Vienna (2012). Online at academia.edu.
  • Robert Menasse: Illiteracy as the highest stage of literary modernism. In: Wespennest 68 (1986) pp. 60-64. (Malicious polemics against the author.)
  • Friedhelm Rathjen: Petrified soul landscape. A reading report on Marianne Fritz “Natur according I”. In: Schreibheft: 49 (1997) pp. 191–196.
  • Friedhelm Rathjen: The inner river system. A reading report on Marianne Fritz “Natur according to II”. In: Schreibheft 54 ​​(2000) pp. 187–191.
  • Friedhelm Rathjen: Through thick and thin. About Marianne Fritz, Gertrude Stein, Arno Schmidt, António Lobo Antunes and other authors of weight. Scheeßel: Edition Rejoyce 2006. ISBN 3-00-018816-9 .
  • Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler: Marianne Fritz: What should you do there? . In: literature and criticism 201/202 (1986) pp. 88-89.

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personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marianne Frieß (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Weiz , Styria, Austria
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2007
Place of death Vienna