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Gesammelte Gedichte 2004-2021
Als Friederike Mayröcker 2004 den 80. Geburtstag feierte und ihre Gesammelten Gedichte 1939-2003 erschienen waren, entschloss sie sich, noch einmal in eine ganz neue Richtung aufzubrechen. Nach und nach entwickelte sich so eine eigene Form, der sie den Namen »Proëm« gab – lyrische Erleuchtung und hellwache Weltbeobachtung, changierend zwischen Kurzprosa und Gedicht. Zu ihrem erklärten Ziel wurde es, schreibend den Tod, ihren erbitterten Feind, auf Distanz zu halten. Friederike Mayröcker tat es mit ungeahnter Produktivität und überbordendem Farbenreichtum, indem sie ihre Liebe zum Leben heraufbeschwor: In Erinnerungen an ihre wechselvolle Kindheit im Wien der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre, an ihre Jahrzehnte an der Seite von Ernst Jandl, an zahllose Begegnungen mit Menschen, Kunstwerken und Musik. Dem Wechsel der Jahreszeiten folgte sie aufmerksamer denn je, und mit ihrer Sprachmacht verstand sie es, eine Blume auf dem Fensterbrett gegenüber zum Zentrum des Universums werden zu lassen
560 pages, Hardcover
Published November 18, 2024
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Friederike Mayröcker
109 books52 followersFriederike Mayröcker (born 20 December 1924 in Vienna) is an Austrian poet. 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 as a 15-year-old. In 1946, she meet 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.
Friederike 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 describes 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."
A German biographical movie documenting Mayröcker's life and work was released in 2008
She started writing as a 15-year-old. In 1946, she meet 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.
Friederike 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 describes 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."
A German biographical movie documenting Mayröcker's life and work was released in 2008
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