Maxie Wander

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Maxie Wander (born January 3, 1933 in Vienna as Elfriede Brunner ; † November 21, 1977 in Potsdam ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Maxie Wander was born into a communist family in the Viennese workers' district of Hernals , the 17th district. She should have been the first in her family to take the Matura (the Austrian school leaving certificate, which corresponds to the German Abitur ), but left school at the age of 17. Without any professional training, she earned her living as a secretary, photographer, journalist and screenwriter .

From 1958 until her death in 1977 she lived with her husband, the Austrian writer Fred Wander , in what was then the GDR in Kleinmachnow near Berlin . The couple had three children: a daughter who died in 1968, a son and an adopted son. Maxie Wander was involved as a co-author of several travel reports of her husband and also wrote screenplays, for example in 1976 for the film A City is Born Like a Child , which was directed by Günter Jordan and was later banned in the GDR.

Her most important work appeared the following year: Good morning, you beautiful. Logs on tape . In it she lets women of different social origins and different ages talk about their everyday experiences, feelings and wishes. Christa Wolf wrote the foreword for the West German edition of Guten Morgen, du Schöne ; later it was also included in the GDR editions. The book was particularly successful in the GDR, but also in West Germany, and saw numerous editions. The genre of protocol literature also became popular in the GDR through Wander, although her book was not the first of its kind. As early as 1973, Sarah Kirsch published five uncoated stories from the cassette recorder , as Kirsch called her book The Panther Woman in the subtitle (and Erika Runge's Bottrop Protocols in 1968 in the FRG ). In 1978 a stage version of Guten Morgen, du Schöne premiered at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

The television of the GDR produced nine television films based on Guten Morgen, du Schöne , whereby three episodes by the director Hans-Werner Honert were banned from performance so that they could only be shown after the fall of the Wall . The other three episodes of Vera Loebner (recorded with electronic television cameras) and Thomas Langhoff (recorded with 16 mm film cameras) were broadcast in 1979 and 1980.

Maxie Wander contracted cancer in 1976 and passed away the following year. In Kleinmachnow, Berlin-Hellersdorf, Dresden and Potsdam a Maxie-Wander-Straße commemorates them. In 2018, a street in Vienna's 22nd district in Seestadt Aspern was named after her.

reception

Gravestone for Maxie Wander and Fred Wander on the Ev. Kleinmachnow forest cemetery

Good morning, you beautiful can be classified as an extension of the pure protocol literature. In contrast to this, Wander weaves his own literary nuances into the essay -like pieces. In other words, she does not write down what has been said literally, but finds other levels of description: “The original protocols are condensed into portraits , the author adapts the gesture, sociolect and tone of the interviewees and enriches them with the image that she herself of the conversation partner and their social situation. The tape transcription becomes literature. "

Sabine Zurmühl's biography Life, this moment about Maxie Wander from 2001 is controversial. There was also a legal dispute with Fred Wander about this biography. Jörg Magenau wrote: “Fred Wander doesn't recognize himself and Maxie in it. He regrets having given his consent to the biography. The author never spoke to him about his marriage, so what could she know about it? Nor did she show him her manuscript, although it had been agreed. He trusted her - damn naivete. ”Fred Wander criticized the author's incomplete research. He had given her unpublished diaries, which she quoted in abbreviated form: “For Fred Wander, the result is a voyeuristic look through the keyhole . From this perspective, he says, quoting Heinrich Böll , one can only see people in their frailty, not as a diverse, difficult life First edition appeared, blackened.

Works

  • Good morning you beautiful Logs on tape . Book publisher Der Morgen , Berlin 1977.
    • Paperback editions (partly with slightly changed title): Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1978 (and more often). dtv, Munich 1993. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45962-1 .
    • Translations into Czech (1981), Estonian (1986), Finnish (1986), Hungarian (1987) and Spanish (2017).
    • Record recording: Good morning, you beautiful: Six portraits of women based on the book by Maxie Wander (two performances by the Deutsches Theater Berlin). Artistic direction: Regina Griebel and Gabriele Heinz . Litera / VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, Berlin (GDR) 1985, No. 8 65 371 and 8 65 372 (2 records: 33 rpm, stereo, 31 cm).
    • Excerpts from the audio book edition : Good morning, you beautiful: three portraits. (Series Ausditorium - Das Hör-Archiv. ) Spoken by Marianne Wünscher ; Jenny Gröllmann ; Karin Gregorek . Director: Barbara Plensat . Barbarossa-Verlag, Kleinmachnow and Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1999 (and more often), ISBN 978-3-351-03909-7 (1 CD: digital; 12 cm + insert).
  • Diaries and letters . Edited by Fred Wander. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1979.
    • West German licensed edition under the title: Life would be a great alternative. Diary entries and letters . Edited by Fred Wander. Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1980. dtv, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-11877-6 .
    • Translations into Swedish, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Danish and Italian (1987).
  • One life is not enough. Diary entries and letters . Edited and with a foreword by Fred Wander. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990. dtv, Munich 1996. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45963-8 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Dahlke: The authority of the author. In: the Friday of July 20, 2001.
  2. ↑ Jörg Magenau: Diaries as a raw material for a poetic life. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 23, 2001.

Web links

Wikiquote: Maxie Wander  - Quotes
personal data
SURNAME Wander, Maxie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunner, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1977
Place of death Kleinmachnow near Berlin