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Sensorium etc.
De eerste uitvoerige keuze in Nederlandse vertaling uit de poëzie van de grande dame van de Oostenrijkse literatuur.
Ernst Jandl besloot zijn feestrede bij de zeventigste verjaardag van Friederike Mayröcker met: ‘toch zouden wij van haar en haar werk nauwelijks iets hebben begrepen als we niet in elk van haar uitingen de onuitputtelijke kracht van haar liefde zouden herkennen.’ Die liefde voor de wereld, voor het leven, en zeker ook de taal is wat dit oeuvre met al zijn emotionele betrokkenheid samenbindt.
Ernst Jandl besloot zijn feestrede bij de zeventigste verjaardag van Friederike Mayröcker met: ‘toch zouden wij van haar en haar werk nauwelijks iets hebben begrepen als we niet in elk van haar uitingen de onuitputtelijke kracht van haar liefde zouden herkennen.’ Die liefde voor de wereld, voor het leven, en zeker ook de taal is wat dit oeuvre met al zijn emotionele betrokkenheid samenbindt.
174 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
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Friederike Mayröcker
110 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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January 24, 2023
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terwijl ik loop over de kinderkopjes
onder mimosabomen en de oriëntaalse
suikerspin vanuit open vensters naar buiten dringt’
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