Marlen Haushofer

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Marlen Haushofer , née Marie Helene Frauendorfer (born April 11, 1920 in Frauenstein (municipality of Molln ), † March 21, 1970 in Vienna ), was an Austrian writer .

Life

Marlen Haushofer was born in 1920 as the daughter of a district forester and a maid in Frauenstein, a district of the Upper Austrian municipality of Molln. From 1930 Haushofer attended the Ursuline boarding school in Linz . In the school year 1938/39 she switched to the grammar school of the Kreuzschwestern Linz . Since this was also conducted in a denominational manner, it fell under the closure decree and the Nazi school authorities set up a public school there. However, the teaching staff of the Sisters of the Cross continued to teach. Haushofer passed her Matura on March 18, 1939 at this second secondary school for girls in Linz . After a short period of labor service, she studied German in Vienna from 1940 and later (from 1943) in Graz , but did not complete her studies. In 1941 she married the dentist Manfred Haushofer, with whom she later moved to Steyr . The marriage, which was divorced in 1950 and renewed in 1958, had a son (* 1943), and she brought a second, older, illegitimate son into the marriage.

Haushofer's grave

From 1946 Haushofer published smaller stories in newspapers and magazines such as Lynkeus or Neue Ways . However, she did not achieve her first success until 1952 with the novella The Fifth Year , which, according to the title, describes a year in the growing up of a child named Marili in sober proximity. Haushofer's literary work was funded primarily by Hans Weigel and Hermann Hakel . The novel Die Wand , which was published in 1963 and filmed in 2012, is Haushofer's best-known and often reissued work. The world described here of an isolated life in the forest, an idyll created in the catastrophe , was long forgotten, like all of the author's other works, despite the early praised qualities. Only the children's books were an exception, however insignificant for the reception. It was only the women's movement and women's literature research that gradually recognized the importance of the work, which repeatedly deals with the role of women in men's society, and thus allowed a renewed reception. The new editions of her novels from 1984 onwards played an important role.

On March 21, 1970, the writer, suffering from bone cancer, died after an operation in Vienna three weeks before her 50th birthday. After the cremation on March 26th in the fire hall Vienna-Simmering , the urn was buried at the Steyrer Taborfriedhof .

On the occasion of the double anniversary of her 100th birthday and 50th anniversary of death in 2020, her biographer Daniela Strigl criticized that Haushofer's publishing house Ullstein had "slept through" the anniversary. In addition, the design of the cover pictures of the current paperback editions ("softly drawn portraits of women") would suggest that their novels are "women's literature".

Awards

Works

  • The fifth year. Novella. Jungbrunnen publishing house , Vienna 1952
  • A handful of lives. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1955, ISBN 3-423-13275-2
  • The forget-me-not source. Stories. Bergland, Vienna 1956
  • The wallpaper door . Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1957; Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-11361-8
  • We're killing Stella. Narrative. Vienna 1958
  • The wall . Novel. Mohn, Gütersloh and Vienna 1963; Claassen, Düsseldorf 1968; Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-548-30169-X ; Klett, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-12-351960-0 ; Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-11403-7 ; List, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-548-60571-0
  • Bartl's adventure . Forum, Vienna 1964; Claassen, Düsseldorf 1988, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990; Ullstein, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-548-60156-1
  • Being good is difficult. Children's book. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1965; G and G, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7074-0162-6
  • Heaven that ends nowhere . Novel. Mohn, Gütersloh 1966; Claassen, Düsseldorf 1969; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Life sentence. Stories. Stiasny, Graz 1966
  • Do animals have to stay outside? Youth book. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1967; Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1993
  • Terrible loyalty. Stories. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1968, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990
  • What to do with the dachshund Youth book. Zsolnay, Vienna 1968; G and G, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7074-0163-4
  • The attic . Novel. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1969; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-25459-0 ; Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-12598-5
  • Being bad is no pleasure either. Children's book. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1970; G and G, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7074-0162-6
  • Encounter with the stranger. Collected stories I. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1985; Claassen, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-546-44189-3 ; Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990
  • The woman with the interesting dreams. Stories. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1990
  • Marlen Haushofer: The survivors. Unpublished texts from the estate. Essays on the work. ; ed. v. Christine Schmidjell, Linz (Landesverlag) 1991
  • Being good is difficult. Audio book. edition-o, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-99022-022-1
  • The good brother Ulrich. Fairy tale trilogy . Innsbruck 2020, ISBN 978-3-99039-165-5

Radio plays

  • The crossword puzzle. Red-White-Red, March 12, 1953
  • The survivors. Radio Bremen, June 20, 1958
  • A midnight game. WDR, December 27, 1984
  • The Waterman. WDR / ORF, May 16, 1999

Film adaptations

The premiere of the film Die Wand took place on February 12, 2012 at the 62nd Berlinale . Martina Gedeck played the main role and Julian Pölsler directed .

In 2016 Pölsler filmed the novel We kill Stella , also with Martina Gedeck in the lead role.

literature

  • Ulf Abraham : Topos and Utopia. The novels of Marlen Haushofer. In: Quarterly publication of the Albert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria. 35: 1-2, 1986, pp. 53-83
  • Anke Bosse , Clemens Ruthner (ed.): “Unraveling a secret world from this fragmented work ...”. Marlen Haushofer's work in context . Francke Verlag, Tübingen-Basel 2000
  • Anne Duden (Ed.): “Or was there something else sometimes?” Texts on Marlen Haushofer. New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Franziska Frei Gerlach, font and gender. Feminist drafts and readings by Marlen Haushofer, Ingeborg Bachmann and Anne Duden. Dissertation. In: Erich Schmidt: Gender difference & literature. Issue 8. Berlin 1998
  • Christine Hoffmann: The madness of a generation. Spelling of “young women authors” in Marlen Haushofer's novels. Dissertation, Vienna 1988
  • Jörg Kaiser: Marlen Haushofer's novel "The Wall" as a representation of a mental state of emergency. Diploma thesis, Graz 2003.
  • Dagmar C. Lorenz: biography and cipher. Dissertation. Cincinnati 1974
  • Dagmar C. Lorenz: Marlen Haushofer - A feminist from Austria. In: Modern Austrian Literature. 12: 3-4, 1979, pp. 171-191, ISSN  0026-7503
  • Christine Schmidjell (Ed.): Marlen Haushofer: The survivors. Unpublished texts from the estate. Essays on the work. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1991
  • Schmidjell, Christine; Strigl, Daniela: Haushofer, Marlen. In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. By Wilhelm Kühlmann. Vol. 5. Berlin [u. a.]: de Gruyter 2009, p. 93f.
  • Sabine Seidel: Reduced Life. Investigations into the narrative work of Marlen Haushofer . Dissertation, University of Passau 2006 ( full text )
  • Ansgar Skoda: Isolation as a self-design. The dialectical relationship between utopia and restriction using the example of Marlen Haushofer's "Die Wand" and Ingeborg Bachmann's "Malina". Master's thesis, Bonn 2010.
  • Daniela Strigl : Marlen Haushofer. The biography. Claassen, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-546-00187-7
  • Oskar Jan Tauschinski: A new phase in Marlen Haushofer's prose. In: Gerhard Fritsch (Hrsg.): Literature and criticism. Number 47/48. Salzburg 1970, pp. 483-488, ISSN  0024-466X
  • Regula Venske: "... the old lost and the new not won ..." In: Inge Stephan (Hrsg.): Women's literature without tradition. Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 99-130

Web links

Commons : Marlen Haushofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Marlen Haushofer  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniela Strigl: "I am probably crazy ..." Marlen Haushofer - the biography. 2nd Edition. List paperback published by Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-60784-9 , p. 63.
  2. ↑ “I am probably crazy ...” p. 106.
  3. ↑ “I am probably crazy ...” p. 108.
  4. ^ Marlen Haushofer. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ “I am probably crazy ...” p. 328
  6. ↑ Daniela Strigl: The brain will finally stop thinking . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 8, 2020, p. 12 .
  7. ↑ The wall. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .


personal data
SURNAME Haushofer, Marlen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frauendorfer, Marie Helene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Minor
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1970
Place of death Vienna