Renate Yates

Renate Yates (born Renate Raubitschek in Vienna in 1933 ) is an Austrian- Australian writer .

Life

Renate Raubitschek is the daughter of Fritzi Raubitschek (1901–1997), who worked at the Wiener Werkstätte , and Ernst Raubitschek (1896–1971), the alpine athlete Trude Raubitschek, was a relative. Her father ran a prosperous dental practice with his brother in Vienna , which had been founded by his father, and he believed he was part of the middle-class society of Vienna. He was named after the "Anschluss" arrested in March 1938 in the Judenhatz on 28 May 1938 brutally abused in the Dachau concentration camp transported and for eleven months there and in the Buchenwald concentration camp detained. Her mother managed to escape to Great Britain with her in June 1938, where her father followed after her release from prison. They received a visa for Australia and reached Sydney at the end of August 1939 , when Renate was six years old. During World War II , her parents were treated as an enemy alien while she was evacuated to Mittagong for school .

Raubitschek studied dentistry at the University of Sydney (Bachelor of Dental Surgery, 1954). She worked in the profession for a time in London and became a freelance writer on her return. Renate Yates mainly publishes short stories. In 2009 she published the notes her father made immediately after his concentration camp imprisonment in an English translation at the Sydney Jewish Museum .

Works (selection)

• Assassinations. The Collected Stories of Renate Yates. The Svengali Press & ETT Imprint, Strawberry Hills 2017, ISBN 978-0-9942765-0-6 .
• Ernst Raubitschek: By train to Dachau. Translation and preface by Renate Yates. Sydney Jewish Museum, Darlinghurst 2009, ISBN 978-0-9805458-3-8 (2nd edition. The Svengali Press & ETT Imprint, Strawberry Hills 2015, ISBN 978-1-925416-16-9 ).
• Victim. In: Michael Wilding, David Myers (Eds.): Confessions & Memoirs. Best Stories under the Sun. Volume 3. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton 2006, ISBN 1-876780-90-8 , pp. 73-77, (short story).
• The Cats of Algeciras. In: Michael Wilding, David Myers (Eds.): Travelers' Tales. Best Stories under the Sun. Volume 2. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton 2005, ISBN 1-876780-58-4 , pp. 68-70, (travelogue).
• The Narcissus Conspiracy. Century, London et al. 1991, ISBN 0-7126-5005-9 (novel).
• The Perfect Murder. In: Stephen Knight (Ed.): Crimes for a Summer Christmas. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1990, ISBN 0-04-442280-6 , pp. 141-143, (short story).
• The Best of Two Worlds. In: Karl Bittman (Ed.): Strauss to Matilda. Viennese in Australia, 1938–1988. The Wenkart Foundation, Sydney 1988, ISBN 1-876780-58-4 , pp. 239-246.
• Rural pursuits. Century, London et al. 1988, ISBN 0-7126-2535-6 (novel).
• Fine bones. Chronicles of death, life and love. Fontana Collins, Sydney 1985, ISBN 0-00-616035-2 (short stories).
• Social death. An Entertainment in Three Months. James Fraser Publishing, Surry Hills 1984, ISBN 0-949493-13-9 (novel).
• The Peony from Pymble. In: Quadrant . Vol. 24, No. 12, 1980, ISSN  0033-5002 , pp. 28-30

literature

• Renate Yates. In: William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, Barry Andrews: The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Melbourne et al. 1994, ISBN 0-19-553381-X , p. 831.
• Yates, Renate. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 3611.

Web links

• Literature by and about Renate Yates in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Renate Yates , Bibliography, at AustLit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Raubitschek, Fritzi. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 2654.