Patricia Jünger

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Patricia Jünger (born August 6, 1951 on a plane between Dublin and Vienna ) is a Swiss - Austrian pianist , organist , composer , conductor and radio play author .

Life

Patricia Jünger was born on a flight between Dublin and Vienna as the daughter of a jazz singer and a pianist. Jünger studied composition, piano, organ and conducting in Vienna , Frankfurt am Main and Paris . Since 1977 she has mainly worked as a composer. It begins in the tradition of Luigi Nono and Hanns Eisler as a representative of a committed art that takes up social and political problems, especially the emancipation of women. Patricia Jünger is the first woman to receive the Karl Sczuka Prize for her radio play Dear Sir - A Requiem , written in 1986 for the then SWF . The work was presented in 1986 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage and in 1987 at the Kassel documenta 8 .

"The end of 1899 applies from the madhouse Friedmatt in Basel, the first doctor of law of history, Dr. Emilie Kempin-Spyri , for a job as a housemaid for a pastor in Basel. As an act of extreme submission in a hopeless situation, her letter is a massive indictment against a world in which women are not allowed to claim a place according to merit and law, but exclusively according to the conditions of male rule, if they do not want to be considered insane. With musical means drastically insisting on the content of the letter, relentlessly urging the listener into the consciousness of this content, Patricia Jünger's audio piece shows the historical dimension of the document and allows its meaning to be felt directly even today. "

- Jury statement for the Karl Sczuka Prize

Other well-known radio plays by Patricia Jünger are Water Walk (1983), Muttertagsfeier or The dismemberment of the female body (1984), Over all tops is Ruh (1984) and The Piano Player (1988 with Elfriede Jelinek ). In the following years she turned back to instrumental composition in connection with electronics and electroacoustics. Since the 1990s she has also included landscapes and public spaces in her composition - as in Transmitter (1996), a global radio and internet project whose first season, From the riverbed to the flooding on the Basel Rhine promenade with raftsmen, divers, a speaker and was premiered by an actress.

Awards (selection)

  • 1989 Radio play of the month June: Valse Eternelle by Patricia Jünger and Ria Endres
  • 1986 Karl Sczuka Prize for Dear Sir - A Requiem
  • 1983 annual working grant for composers from the Aargau Board of Trustees
  • 1981 Austrian state scholarship for composers
  • 1980 Scholarships from the Alban Berg Foundation Vienna and the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel
  • 1979 Theodor Körner Prize for Composition and Prize from the Vienna Art Fund

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ The German National Library and the Music Information Center Austria state Frankfurt am Main as the place of birth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musinfo biography Patricia Jünger ( memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ^ Catalog of works and biography in the Music Information Center Austria
  3. ↑ Biography at SME-Musinfo, website for contemporary Swiss music
  4. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 335; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
  5. ↑ HörDat 5 radio plays with Patricia Jünger , accessed on April 3, 2015.
  6. ↑ Jürg Huber: Idiosyncratic female voices. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 3, 2007, accessed June 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Project description transmitter 1996
personal data
SURNAME Younger, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Austrian pianist, organist, composer, conductor and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH between Dublin and Vienna