Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth ( born July 5, 1941 in Altaussee, Salzkammergut) is an Austrian writer and translator.
Life
Barbara was born in Frischmuth Altausee daughter of hoteliers Anton Frischmuth that fell in Russia during World War II in 1943, and his wife Maria née Schmidt. After his father's death his wife led the hotel business until 1956 further and married again.
She spent her childhood in Altausee, went to high school in Gmunden and Bad Aussee and later. Because of a move, the Pestalozzi -Gymnasium in Graz, where she graduated also At the Karl- Franzens- University studied Frischmuth from the autumn of 1959 at the Institute interpreting Turkish, English and later Hungarian. One of his scholarship led 1960/61, to the Turkish Ataturk University in Erzurum. 1964 moved Frischmuth to Vienna, where she began the study of Turkic, Iranian and Islamic studies.
In the fall of 1966, she broke off her studies and was all professionally active as a writer and translator. During her studies, she has published poems and in 1962 a member of the later so-called " Grazer group ". She took part in readings and came up with the City Park Forum in contact, whose founding member, she was appointed during their time in Erzurum. Several abroad have taken her to Turkey, Hungary, Egypt, England, China, Japan and the USA, where she lectured at Oberlin College in Ohio and at Washington University in St. Louis.
Today the author lives in Altausee. There is also her garden, which provides the material for their stories so far three garden books. She is a writer, translator and columnist. Barbara Frischmuth is furthermore the niece of Edith Hauer Frischmuth whose life story she had incorporated " mess child " in her work, to which they, however, had a family split relationship.
Awards and honors
Works
Novels, short stories
- The convent school. Frankfurt / Main 1968
- Stories for Stanek. Berlin 1969
- Days and years. Sets the situation. Salzburg, Vienna 1971
- The disappearance of the shadow in the sun. Frankfurt / Main, 1973; , new series as dtv Paperback, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-06302-5.
- Return to the provisional starting point. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7017-0044-3.
- Chasing after the wind. Narratives. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7017-0111-3. both as dtv Paperback, new series, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-06339-4.
Children and Youth books
- Amoral rattle, 1969
- The Pluderich, 1969
- Philomena mosquito Schnabel, 1970
- Upholsterers, with illustrations, v. Robert Zeppel - Sperl, 1970
- The Princess in the spool of thread and other puppet shows for children, with illustrations Ulrike v. Enders, 1972
- Ida - and Ob, 1972
- Grizzly Potbelly and woman Nuffl, with linocuts Axel von Hertenstein, 1975
- Der liebe Augustin, with illustrations v. Inge Morath, 1981
- The Holiday Family, 1981
- Beaver tooth and the Khan of the wind, with illustrations v. Angelika Kaufmann, 1990
- Summer lake, 1991
- Machtnix or the run that took the world. A picture story, 1993
- Bedtime story for Maria Carolina, with illustrations v. Ducan Kállay, 1994
- From the girl who went over the water, with illustrations v. Dusan Kállay, 1996
- Donna & Dario, 1997
- The story of the Stainzer pumpkin seed, with illustrations v. László Varvasovsky, 2000
- Alice in Wonderland, with illustrations v. Jass Ghiuselev, 2000
Plays
- The grass-green stone eater, 1973
- The Princess in the spool of thread, directed by Georg Ourth, Salzburg State Theater, 1976
- Daphne and lo or on the edge of the real world, the Vienna Schauspielhaus, 1982
- Without hesitation. A kind of farce. Director: Michael Gampe. Vienna: popular theater in the outskirts, 1994
- A brief history of mankind. Dramatization for Optical concert. Music: Marco Schadler, concept, arr, directed by John Rausch. Choreography: Guillermo Horta Betancourt. Feldkirch: Hall of Labour, 1994
- Lily's conclusion. Monologue written for Anna Maria Gruber / Irmi horn. Director: Steffen Höld. Graz: forum stadtpark theater in the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden in 2002
- Bad mother. . Melodrama 1989 Director: Michael A. Richter. Graz: kunstGarten 2004
Libretti
- Mirabelle compote or Mostbirnenmus, 2007 for the siren opera theater
Radio plays
- The Mauskoth and Kuttlerin. SWF, 1970
- The unknown hand. SWF, NDR, ORF, 1970
- LöffelWeise moon. Director: Klaus multi-country. WDR, 1971
- I want, I want the world. SWF, 1977
- The moon woman. SDR, ORF, 1979
- Beaver tooth and the Khan of the winds. Director: Hartmut Kirste. SDR, NDR, 1986
- Internal calls. Director: Ernst Wendt. SDR, ORF Vienna, 1986
- Sideshow or am I still alive? Director: Manfred Marchfelder. SDR, ORF Vienna, 1988
- Mister Pink, or the difficulty to be a dwarf. Directed by Götz Fritsch. ORF Vienna, 1990
- The Mozart listening Hanako and her five kittens. With Kazuko Saegura. Director: Georg Madeja. ORF Vienna, 1991
- Without hesitation. Directed by Götz Fritsch. ORF, WDR, 1992
- The grass-green stone eater. Director: John Rausch. ORF Vorarlberg, 1993
- Love in Erzurum. Directed by Götz Fritsch. ORF, WDR, 1994
- Miss Potter has changed his mind. ORF, WDR, 1996
- Genesis. Radio Bremen, 1997.
- Four verses for a coat or the transformation of Abu silk of Serug, WDR 1997
Translations
- Miklós Mészöly Saul. Translation from Hungarian, Munich 1970.
Movies
- The mice fright. TV picture story for a puppet show by Barbara Frischmuth. Director: Tony Munzlinger. SWF, 1972
- And Na. A witch story. TV Movie, SWF 1972
- The Princess in the spool of thread. TV Cartoons by Barbara Frischmuth. Director: Tony Munzlinger. SWF, 1973
- Ida - and Ob. BR 1973
- Tree of forgotten dog. TV movie, ORF 1976
- Goodbyes. TV film in two parts. Screenplay ( based on a novella by Arthur Schnitzler and a story by Barbara Frischmuth ) Director: Gedeon Kovacs. ORF, ZDF, 1986
- Otter. Teleplay. ORF 1985.
- Ausseerland, ORF, 1991
- Rabenmutter, directed by Christian Berger, ORF, 1991
- Summer lake. Television series in six episodes, directed by: Erhard Riedlsperger, ORF, ZDF, 1992