Gisela Elsner

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Gisela Elsner


Born
in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany
May 02, 1937

Died
May 13, 1992

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Elsner was born in Nuremberg, Middle Franconia. In 1959, she went to Vienna to study philosophy, Germanic letters and drama.

Elsner then lived as a freelance writer in various places: Lake Starnberg, Frankfurt, in Rome from 1963 to 1964, in London from 1964 to 1970, then in Paris, Hamburg, New York, and finally in Munich.

She was among the members of Gruppe 47, which also included Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll.

In her 1970 novel Berührungsverbot, several couples try to transcend the limits of the bourgeois sexual mores of their middle-class background by engaging in group sex orgies. In Switzerland, a journal that published excerpts from the novel was banned, and in Austria it was attacked as harmful to children.

Elsner described herself as a
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Die Zähmung: Chronik einer Ehe

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Der Punktsieg

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