Renate Welsh

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Renate Welsh (2019)

Renate Welsh (born December 22, 1937 in Vienna ), b. Redtenbacher, is an Austrian author who has concentrated heavily on children's and youth literature , but who also published her own memoirs in 2019.

Life

The daughter of the doctor Norbert Redtenbacher and his wife Elisabeth grew up without their mother, who died early, mostly with their grandparents in Ausseerland , where she also attended school, the elementary school in Aussee at her own request from the age of five. In 1953 she went to Portland , Oregon, United States for a year as an exchange student , where she passed her first " Matura " ( high school graduation ) in 1954 at the age of 16, followed by the Austrian Matura in Vienna the following year . She then studied English, Spanish and political science in Vienna from 1955 to 1957. However, she broke off her studies, married Christopher Norton Welsh and worked as a translator for the British Council in Vienna until 1959 . She has been a freelance translator since 1962 and, after a long illness, began writing books for children and young people in 1969. She has been a freelance writer since 1975 and has also been writing for adults since 1988.

Renate Welsh has repeatedly described her childhood as unhappy, which she attributes to the early death of loved ones (mother, grandfather), the resulting diffuse feelings of guilt and the experience of the Second World War. She was also shaped by the encounter with the fate of her father's mostly Jewish colleagues. As a child she began to process what she had experienced with the help of writing.

She wrote several sequels to her most successful book, Das Vamperl . In the book Dieda or The Strange Child she told of her own childhood at the end of the Second World War.

On May 26, 1992 Renate Welsh was awarded the title of Professor. In 2006 Renate Welsh became President of the Austrian Authors' Interest Group and thus Milo Dor's successor .

Renate Welsh married Shiras Rabady for the second time after 2000, who took over her father's doctor's ordination. Her full name is now Welsh-Rabady.

She lives with her husband in Vienna and has three sons. Her novel Kieselsteine ​​was published in 2019 . Stories of a childhood .

Works

  • The grandson of the lion hunter. 1969.
  • Ülkü, the strange girl. Story and documentation, 1973.
  • All children by Kinderstadt. 1974.
  • Thomas and Billy. Or: cats jump differently in 1975.
  • Once sixteen and never again. 1975.
  • Recipient unknown - back. 1976.
  • The slaps. in: I was fourteen then , in 1978
  • The Vamperl. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1979.
  • I no longer understand the drum. Stories from Africa. 1979.
  • Johanna. 1979. ² 1980.
  • That ends well, nothing at all? 1980.
  • The grandson of the lion hunter. 1982.
  • You'll be fine soon! 1982.
  • The carrier pigeon officer. 1983.
  • Like in someone else's shoes. 1983.
  • Whom the muses kiss. 1984.
  • Johanna . Roman, 1984. French edition: Paris 1990. New edition: 2002.
  • Simply belong. 1984.
  • Julie on the soccer field. 1984
  • Karolin and Knuddel. 1985
  • The little moor ghost. 1985.
  • One hand you can touch. 1985.
  • Live life. Roman, 1986.
  • Snail shells. 1986.
  • Third bed on the left. 1986.
  • Corinna. 1987
  • I'll give you a children's day. 1987
  • Schnirkel, the snail child and other animal stories. 1987
  • Out of sight, in mind. Thoughts on Encounters 1988.
  • Encounters. 1988.
  • ... and send him out into the desert (unfortunately a report). 1988
  • Recipient unknown - return! 1988.
  • Dragon wings. 1988.
  • Thrown in the balance. 1988.
  • Stefan. 1989.
  • Constanze Mozart. An insignificant woman. 1990.
  • Spinach on Wheels. Children's novel, 1991.
  • You are already big. 1991.
  • A paper crown. 1992.
  • Vamperl shouldn't be left alone. 1992.
  • Melanie Miraculi. 1992.
  • Martin in the soap dish. 1993.
  • Partitions. 1993.
  • A Different Kind of Brother. London 1993.
  • Otherwise it's your turn. 1994.
  • The air house. Roman, 1994.
  • Everything would be different with Hannibal. 1994.
  • House haunted. 1995.
  • Haunted mouse. 1995
  • The face in the mirror. 1997.
  • Thistle days. 1997.
  • Constanze Mozart. To Unimportant Woman. Riverside, California 1997.
  • The house in the trees. 1998.
  • Tanja and the ghosts. 1998.
  • Six strays. 1998.
  • Reunion with Vamperl. 1998
  • Visit from the past. 1999.
  • Max, the new one. 1999.
  • That ends well, nothing at all? Revised new edition, 2000.
  • Dieda or The Strange Child. 2002.
  • There is a warning against pickpockets. 2002
  • Dear sister. 2003.
  • Constanze Mozart, an insignificant woman. (1990) Edition revised by the author. 2004.
  • The beautiful view. 2005.
  • Good thing nobody knows. 2006.
  • ... and you're out. 2008.
  • Grandmother's shoes. Novel. 2008.
  • It doesn't work without Vamperl. Novel. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-76016-4 .
  • Otherwise it's your turn. A story on the subject of "Violence in School". 2011.
  • Pretty colorful. 2013, ISBN 978-3-85197-703-5 .
  • Pebbles: Stories of a Childhood , Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7076-0671-3 .

Radio plays (selection)

  • Childerei, ORF 1974.
  • Das Vamperl, SWR 1979.
  • Roderich and the carrier pigeons, SWR 1983.
  • The piano lesson, ORF 1984.
  • Drachenflügel, SFB 1991.
  • An Inappropriate Friendship, SFB 1991.

As editor

  • I no longer understand the drum. Stories from Africa. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-07836-7 .
  • Answer to no question. Stories of and about love. 1985.
  • Farewell and arrival. Stories from and about home. 1988.
  • Thoughts are free. 1990.

Translations (selection)

  • Richard Gordon: The cosmetic surgeon. 1968.
  • Joyce Stranger: Big Heart for Small Animals. 1970.
  • James A. Michener : The Children of Torremolinos. 1971
  • Mildred Lee: Maybe an end, maybe a beginning. 1974.
  • Judith Kerr : Mogs and Bunny. 1989.
  • Judith Kerr: And then the ark was gone. 1993.

Awards

Audio books

literature

  • Gina Weinkauff; Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Narration and documentation: Foreign countries and foreign children in Renate Welsh's early work , in: Gunda Mairbäurl u. a. (Ed.): Childhood, childhood literature, children's literature: studies on the history of Austrian literature; Festschrift for Ernst Seibert . Vienna: Praesens, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7069-0644-9 , pp. 193-202

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pebbles Stories of a Childhood
personal data
SURNAME Welsh, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welsh-Rabady, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author of books for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna