Ilse Aichinger

Ilse Aichinger was born on the 1^st November 1921. She is an Austrian writer known for her account of her precaution by the Nazis because of her ancestry from the Jewish.

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Life and Career

Ilse Aichinger was born in the year 1921 in the city of Vienna together with the twin sister called Helga to a Christian teacher and a Jewish doctor. The family of the mother was assimilated and she was raised as a catholic.

Ilse Aichinger spent her childhood in the city of Linz and Vienna and that was where her family was subjected to the persecution of Nazi beginning from the year 1933.

She started studying medicine in the year 1945 and worked as a writer on the side. She narrated her experience at the time of the Nazi in her first novel called Das vierte Tor. She interrupted her studies after 5 semesters in school to chase her second novel called Die größere in the year1948.

She got married to a German writer called Günter Eich and they gave birth to their first son called Clemens on the 22^nd May 1954 and their daughter called Mirjam was born in the year 1958.

Awards

Ø  Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste (1961, 1991)

Ø  Anton Wildgans Prize (1968)

Ø  Nelly Sachs Prize (1971)

Ø  Roswitha Prize (1975)

Ø  Petrarca-Preis (1982)

Ø  Grand Austrian State Prize (1995)

Ø  Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1995)

Works

Ø  Das vierte Tor (1945)

Ø  Die größere Hoffnung (1948)

Ø  Spiegelgeschichte (1949)

Ø  Der Gefesselte (1953)

Ø  Das Fenster-Theater (1954)

Ø  Kleist, Moos, Fasane (1987)

Ø  Film und Verhängnis (2001)