Friederike Mayröcker

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Friederike Mayröcker
Mayröcker in 2015
Born(1924-12-20)20 December 1924
Died4 June 2021(2021-06-04) (aged 96)
Occupations
  • Teacher
  • Poet
OrganizationsWiener Gruppe
PartnerErnst Jandl
Awards
Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker, at a public reading in Vienna, 1974

Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian poet.

Life

From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher, and in 1977 she retired early.

She started writing at age 15. In 1946, she met Otto Basil who published some of her first works in his avant-garde journal Plan. Mayröcker's poems were published a few years later by renowned literary critic Hans Weigel. She was eventually introduced to the Wiener Gruppe, a group of mostly surrealist and expressionist Austrian authors.

Mayröcker is recognized as one of the most important contemporary Austrian poets. She also had success with her prose and radio plays. Four of them she wrote together with Ernst Jandl, with whom she lived together from 1954 until his death in 2000.

Her prose is often described as autofictional, since Mayröcker uses quotes of private conversations and excerpts from letters and diaries in her work.

Mayröcker described her working process as follows: "I live in pictures. I see everything in pictures, my complete past, memories are pictures. I transform pictures into language by climbing into the picture. I walk into it until it becomes language."[1]

A German-produced documentary chronicling Mayröcker's life and work was released in 2008.[2]

Mayröcker died on 4 June 2021 aged 96, in Vienna.[3][4]

Works

  • Gesammelte Prosa 1949-2001 (collected prose) ed. by Klaus Reichert, 5 volumes, Frankfurt/Main 2001
  • Magische Blätter I-V (magic pages I-V), Frankfurt/Main 2001
  • Requiem für Ernst Jandl (requiem for Ernst Jandl), Frankfurt/Main 2001
  • Mein Arbeitstirol - Gedichte 1996-2001 (my working Tyrol – poems), Frankfurt/Main 2003
  • Die kommunizierenden Gefäße (the communicating vessels) Frankfurt/Main 2003
  • Sinclair Sofokles der Baby-Saurier (Sinclair Sofokles the baby-dinosaur) with coloured illustrations by Angelika Kaufmann, St. Pölten 2004
  • Gesammelte Gedichte 1939-2003 (collected poems) ed. by Marcel Beyer, Frankfurt/Main 2005
  • Und ich schüttelte einen Liebling (and I shook a darling), Frankfurt/Main 2005
  • Pathos und Schwalbe, Frankfurt/Main 2018.

Radio plays

  • Die Umarmung, nach Picasso (the embracement, after Picasso)
  • Repetitionen, nach Max Ernst (repetitions, after Max Ernst)
  • Schubertnotizen oder das unbestechliche Muster der Ekstase (Schubert-memos or the incorrupt model of ecstasy)
  • Arie auf tönernen Füßen (aria on feet of clay)
  • Das zu Sehende, das zu Hörende (the to be seen, the to be heard) (awarded the ORF radio play prize)
  • Die Kantate oder, Gottes Augenstern bist Du, (the cantata or, gods eye-star you are) music by Wolfgang von Schweinitz (2003)

with Ernst Jandl:

  • Der Gigant (the giant)
  • Gemeinsame Kindheit (childhood together)
  • Five Man Humanity / Fünf Mann Menschen
  • Spaltungen (partitions)

Libretto

  • Stretta, Music by Wolfram Wagner. World premiere at Sirene Opera, Vienna 2004

Awards

References

Citations

  1. ^ In: Heimspiel (Journal of ORF – public Austrian radio station) March 2007, p. 5
  2. ^ Das Schreiben und das Schweigen. Die Schriftstellerin Friederike Mayröcker, retrieved 20 July 2020
  3. ^ "Schriftstellerin: Friederike Mayröcker ist tot". Die Zeit (in German). 4 June 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Friederike Mayröcker ist tot: Österreichische Schriftstellerin mit 96 Jahren gestorben". Der Spiegel (in German). 4 June 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.

Bibliography

  • Theo Breuer: „Friederike Mayröcker, usw.“, in: T.B., Aus dem Hinterland. Lyrik nach 2000, Edition YE, Sistig/Eifel 2005
  • Renate Kühn (Ed.): Friederike Mayröcker oder Das innere des Sehens, studies about poetry, radio play and prose, Bielefeld 2002
  • Inge Arteel / Heidy M. Müller (Ed.): Rupfen in fremden Gärten - Intertextualität im Schreiben Friederike Mayröckers, Bielefeld 2002
  • Edith A. Kunz: Verwandlungen - Zur Poetologie des Übergangs in der späten Prosa Friederike Mayröckers, Göttingen 2004
  • Ralf B. Korte / Elisabeth Hödl: FM dj (reading reise durch die nacht). Ein elektronischer Briefroman. 2004
  • Martin A. Hainz: Schwarze Milch zu schreiben. Paul Celan und Friederike Mayröcker. In: Weimarer Beiträge, No. 52·1, 2006, pp. 5–19
  • Leo Truchlar: Wozu lese und schreibe ich? Notizen aus Anlaß meiner Lektüren von Adrienne Rich und Friederike Mayröcker. - In: Leo Truchlar, Über Literatur und andere Künste, Wien 2000, p. 17ff.
  • Inge Arteel: „gefaltet, entfaltet“. Strategien der Subjektwerdung in Friederike Mayröckers Prosa 1988-1998. Bielefeld 2007.

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