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...
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Ilse Aichinger was born on the 1st November 1921. She is an
Austrian writer known for her account of her precaution by the Nazis because of
her ancestry from the Jewish.
source of picture: www.berliner-zeitung.de
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 22nd
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)
