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Und ich schüttelte einen Liebling
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- GenresGerman Literature
237 pages, Paperback
First published October 19, 2005
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About the author
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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May 19, 2025
es beginnt wie mittendrin, ohne majuskel, sofort ist man bewegt und erzittert, sofort tief in ihrem textlichen innern.
„und“ als erstes wort eines neuen absatzes.
„schliesslich sind alle menschen unbewusst / so : wenn sie allein sind, wollen sie mit anderen zusammen sein, und wenn sie mit anderen zusammen sind, wollen sie allein sein“
ein tiefgehendes, mitreissendes, schweres, fantastisches buch; eine ansammlung von alltag und darin ein klares trauern um den tod von ernst jandl. eine ode, eigentlich, an diese liebe: getrennt nur durch den tod.
mayröckers wahnsinnige sprache verschlingt mich.
„dann florte es um mich herum und ich schüttelte einen liebling.“
„und“ als erstes wort eines neuen absatzes.
„schliesslich sind alle menschen unbewusst / so : wenn sie allein sind, wollen sie mit anderen zusammen sein, und wenn sie mit anderen zusammen sind, wollen sie allein sein“
ein tiefgehendes, mitreissendes, schweres, fantastisches buch; eine ansammlung von alltag und darin ein klares trauern um den tod von ernst jandl. eine ode, eigentlich, an diese liebe: getrennt nur durch den tod.
mayröckers wahnsinnige sprache verschlingt mich.
„dann florte es um mich herum und ich schüttelte einen liebling.“
February 1, 2022
Not really my cup of tea. The author‘s stream of consciousness is fun to read but it gets a bit repetitive after some time.
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