Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry
1 appearances
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Edition 20 (1981) Winner
Friederike Mayröcker
ふりーどりけ・まいれっかー
Furīdorike Mairekkā
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1924-12-20 （Vienna）
- Died
- 2021-06-04 （Vienna） age 96
- Nationality
- Austria
- Languages
- German
- Residence History
- Vienna, Austria → Deinzendorf village (summers)
Career
- Occupations
- Teacher, Poet, Writer, Radio play author, Children's book author
- Active Years
- 1939-2021
- Affiliations
- Wiener Gruppe
- Memberships
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Influenced By
- Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Hölderlin, Ingeborg Bachmann
- Influenced
- Ernst Jandl
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Theodor Körner Prize | — | — | — | winner |
| 1969 | Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden | Five Man Humanity | — | — | winner |
| 1982 | Grand Austrian State Prize | — | Literature | — | winner |
| 1996 | Grand Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts | — | — | Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts | winner |
| 1997 | America Award | — | — | — | winner |
| 2001 | Georg Büchner Prize | — | — | Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung | winner |
| 2009 | Hermann-Lenz-Preis | Scardanelli | — | — | winner |
| 2010 | Peter Huchel Prize | This jacket (namely) the griffin | — | — | winner |
Theodor Körner Prize
1963
Result:
winner
Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
1969
Work:
Five Man Humanity
Result:
winner
Grand Austrian State Prize
1982
Category:
Literature
Result:
winner
Grand Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
1996
Organization:
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
Result:
winner
America Award
1997
Result:
winner
Georg Büchner Prize
2001
Organization:
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Result:
winner
Hermann-Lenz-Preis
2009
Work:
Scardanelli
Result:
winner
Peter Huchel Prize
2010
Work:
This jacket (namely) the griffin
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Roswitha Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 10 (1982) Winner
America Award in Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 4 (1997) Winner
Georg Büchner Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 76 (2001) Winner
Works
Major Works
Larifari – A Confused Book
1956 Prose miniaturesA collection of prose miniatures.
Language experimentEveryday life
Death by Muses
1966 Poetry collectionBreakthrough poetry collection.
Lyric poetryAvant-garde
Requiem for Ernst Jandl
2001 PoetryWork mourning partner Ernst Jandl's death.
LossLoveGrief
as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window
2020 Lyric collectionFinal lyric collection fusing poetry and prose into proems.
NatureFantasyDaily life
Bibliography
- Collected Prose 1949–2001
- Magic Pages I–V
- Requiem for Ernst Jandl
- My Working Tyrol – Poems 1996–2001
- The Communicating Vessels
- Sinclair Sofokles the Baby Dinosaur
- Collected Poems 1939–2003
- And I Shook a Darling
- fleurs
- Pathos und Schwalbe
Translations of Works
- Night Train (English)
- Heiligenanstalt (English)
- with each clouded peak (English)
- peck me up, my wing (English)
- Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946–2006 (English)
- brütt, or The Sighing Gardens (English)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Avant-gardeExperimental languageDense text formationsMagicalAutofictional
- Recurring Motifs
- Minutiae of daily lifeNatural worldLove and griefPictures and memoriesMontages
Health
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Grief2000年以降（パートナー死後）Temporarily unable to write
Legacy
One of the most important contemporary Austrian poets and leading authors in German-language literature. Received numerous prizes and was frequently mentioned as a Nobel contender.
Quotes
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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.
Source: Heimspiel journal (2007)
Trivia
- Began writing poetry at age 15.
- Drafted as air force aide and secretary in WWII.
- Partner of Ernst Jandl from 1954 until his death in 2000, but lived separately, no children.
- Member of Wiener Gruppe.
- Included and exhibited her own drawings in books.