The Austrian poet Ilse Aichinger is dead. The writer and poet died Friday at the age of 95 in Vienna, as her daughter Mirjam Eich said.
her novel “The larger hope” was made known Aichinger 1948 abruptly. Later works radio plays such as “buttons”, stories such as “Eliza, Eliza,” or, “Kleist, Moos, pheasants” and poems (“a Waste of Council” in 1978). In their own idiosyncratic language Association Aichinger analytical observation with poetic power. This made them one of the most important voices in the Austrian post-war literature. Among other things, she was awarded the Nelly Sachs prize, the Georg Trakl prize and the Kafka prize.
Ilse Aichinger was a reticent and media-shy author. You encapsulated in time, more and more of the world. Many years before her death, she no longer appeared in Public, gave no more Interviews. Their work referred to as a stealth “can be silence Write a Form,” said Aichinger once. Life was “absurd impertinence,” she said once in an interview with the German press Agency – even as a child, she wanted to disappear. Later, you helped one of your Hobbies: going to the cinema. Until her high age, she searched the darkness and anonymity of the cinema hall.
The poet came from a Jewish family, the mother was a Doctor, his father is a teacher. Traumatic, she experienced the separation from her twin sister, was sent with one of the last children’s transports to England. She survived the Nazi period with her mother in a hiding place close to the Gestapo Headquarters in her hometown of Vienna. After the war she began the study of medicine, which you broke. In the fifty years she was repeatedly invited to Meetings of the group 47 and received in 1952 in the resort of Ostseebad Niendorf for the story “mirror of history” the award of the group.
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aichinger’s work was characterised by a death wish. “I’ve always perceived as an imposition that you will not be asked if you want to come to the world. I would have refused,” she said of the weekly newspaper “die Zeit”. The death she longed for over 20 years: “I want to be dead, but I don’t want to die, because I got to see a few times in the marsh, how long can it take.”
contrary to expectations, the cause of this death was not longing in her experiences during the Second world war. “The war was my happiest time,” said Aichinger once the “time”. Hope I lived there, the rude awakening was to come later.
her life after the war was marked by strokes of fate and loss. In 1953 she married the writer Günther Eich, with whom she had two children. Eich died in 1972 in Salzburg. In 1998 their son Clemens died in an accident. Aichinger was with her daughter Mirjam Eich alone.
aichinger’s texts were in the course of time becoming shorter and shorter. The waiting times until the next one is longer. In 2015, she was awarded the Great art prize of the province of Salzburg. “Its timeless, of all literary modes that cannot be influenced and printed the total work may be narrow – and yet it is immense,” it said in the reasoning of the Jury. The award was accepted by her daughter.
Now, Ilse Aichinger has died at the age of 95 years.
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