Mida Huber

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Portrait photography (no year), notice in front of the Landsee cemetery

Mida Huber (born April 8, 1880 in Lackenbach , Burgenland , † January 8, 1974 in Oberpullendorf Hospital ) was an Austrian writer and poet .

To set her in dialect alone is one-sided, she has written high-level language, both poetry and prose. In addition, she was also a painter, draftsman, craftsperson and tried her hand as a composer .

Life

Mida Huber was born as the daughter of a forester from the Princely Esterházy Forest Administration in Lackenbach Castle . Their places of residence corresponded to their father's places of work in what is now Burgenland. In her childhood, Mida stayed with her grandparents in Laxenburg , Lower Austria ; an uncle in Vienna was an imperial court photographer with a studio in the first district . She received private piano and drawing lessons, but the family had grown to include seven more children, and Mida met the fate of many older daughters of the time.

Mida had already worked in literature, and since she was not allowed to have children, the first volume of poetry and prose that she experienced at 71 was named Meini Kinda at her request . She had been able to attend the art school for women and girls in Vienna for a few more semesters , among her teachers was the well-known landscape painter Tina Blau , but she had to return home early.

The home and work space of the dialect poet and artist Mida Huber in Landsee; a museum is currently set up there.

She looked after both parents in Forchtenstein until their death. Evicted during the war in 1942, she found refuge in Landsee . So she got into the little house with the tiny garden. Visitors were mostly unaware that they had no water connection, let alone sanitary facilities, that they could not sufficiently heat the only room they lived in with the economy stove.

Grave site in the Landsee cemetery

Her life was tough, but she valued her independence and was able to meet her personal needs in the village. In old age, she often told confidants how happy she was to be able to look through one of her windows at the Landsee castle ruins . Her correspondence with Klara Köttner-Benigni lasted from 1952 to the beginning of 1974, one of her most moving statements in it when she was over 86 was: By chance I came to the heart of the castle. You think, after years, I was enchanted, moved to tears. She has also gotten older and poorer, my first great, everlasting love.

Works

  • -, Toni Lantos (comp.), Franz Probst (comp.): Meini Kinda. A selection from their seals . Volksbildungswerk for Burgenland, Provincial Department for Burgenland Literature Management, Eisenstadt 1951, OBV .
  • Waiting away . Second, revised edition. Österreichischer Bundesverlag , Vienna 1962, OBV .
  • -, Klara Köttner-Benigni (compilation): Stille Pfade . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1965, OBV .
  • When the path is grazing. A selection. Poetry and prose in high-level language and dialect . Pannonica-Verlag, Oberpullendorf 1994, ISBN 3-900796-03-3 , OBV .

Awards

literature

  • Toni Lantos: Mida Huber on her 80th birthday. In: Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government (Hrsg.): Burgenländische Heimatblätter . Issue 22, Eisenstadt 1960, ISSN  1018-6107 , p. 1 ff, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • Klara Köttner-Benigni, Walter Benigni (photo): Mida Huber on her hundredth birthday. In: Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government (Hrsg.): Burgenländische Heimatblätter. Issue 42, Eisenstadt 1980, ISSN  1018-6107 , pp. 185-194, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • Elke Zapfel: The Burgenland dialect poet Mida Huber. Life, work, language . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1988, OBV .
  • Sabrina Hergovich (concept, implementation): Did grace lead me the stylus… . 1 CD (12 cm). Audio book about the life and work of Mida Huber with a verse she has read , poetry and prose presented by Hans Neubauer, Angelika Schütz, Wolfgang Gasser and Fred Hergovich, statements about the writer by Klara Köttner-Benigni. Mattersburg Literature House . Radio Burgenland . Verlag Edition Lex Liszt 12, Oberwart 2008, ISBN 978-3-901757-68-6 .
  • Andreas Lehner (Ed.): Mida Huber . First edition. Brochure with works by Mida Huber, memorabilia and photographs, the latter in particular by Walter Benigni . Introduction by Klara Köttner-Benigni. Verlag Edition Lex Liszt 12, Oberwart 2008, ISBN 978-3-901757-83-9 .
  • Helmut Stefan Milletich (Hrsg.), Franz Forster (Hrsg.), Sabine Milletich (Hrsg.): Contributions to a literary history of Burgenland . Volume 1: Chronology . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna (among others) 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78308-4 .

Web links

Commons : Mida Huber  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Klara Köttner-Benigni dated July 14, 2010 to Helmuth Furch.
  2. ↑ Tobias Mindler: On the Mida Huber House in Landsee, reopening of the house on August 14, 2008 . Single sheet print with selected works by Mida Huber, a detailed account of her life, both by Klara Köttner-Benigni, as well as photos by Walter Benigni. Volksbildungswerk for Burgenland, Eisenstadt 1980 (?)
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Mida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lackenbach
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1974
Place of death Oberpullendorf