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Christine Haidegger (27 February 1942 – 5 December 2021) was an Austrian poet and writer whose memoir ''Zum Fenster hinaus'' was translated into English as ''Mama Dear''. She was influential in the
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literary scene.


Biography

Haidegger was born to Austrian parents in Dortmund, Germany, and grew up in
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after World War II. She lived in
Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...
since the mid-1950s. After getting her ''
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'' diploma, she spent considerable time in England, France, Italy, and the U.S. She worked as a freelance writer from 1964 onward. Her first novel ''Zum Fenster hinaus'' describes a post-war childhood in Austria. Haidegger founded the (SAG) and was honorary member. She was also significantly involved in the development of the . Haidegger published numerous novels, short stories, travelogues, plays and poems. In 1978, Haidegger took part in the
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in Klagenfurt. In 1991, she was writer-in-residence at
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in Virginia, US.


Personal life

Haidegger was married to Eberhard Haidegger. They had a daughter, Christina-Maria, who also became a writer and published under the pen name . After her daughter died in 1989, Haidegger managed the estate and initiated the Meta Merz Literature Prize. Haidegger died on 5 December 2021, at the age of 79.


Works

Haidegger published works of many genres, and edited works by her daughter Meta Merz. The jury of the Salzburg Poetry Award wrote in 2005 that her texts render convincingly both snapshots of seasons, nature and life, and existential experiences such as grief, loneliness, time and transience in an unpretentious language particularly distinguished by its apparent simplicity and careful imagery. ("")


As author

Source: * ''Entzauberte Gesichte''. Poetry. Darmstadt: Bläschke, 1976. * ''Zum Fenster hinaus. Eine Nachkriegskindheit''. Novel. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1979. * ''Adam / Adam''. Novel. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1985. * ''Atem. Stille''. Poetry. Baden: Grasl, 1993. * ''Schöne Landschaft''. Collected prose. Salzburg: edition prolit, 1993. * ''Amerikanische Verwunderung. Skizzenbuch zu einem Aufenthalt''. Short prose. Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag, 1993. * ''Cajuns, Cola, Cadillac. American Sightseeing''. Vienna: Milena, 1997. * ''Weiße Nächte''. Poetry. Baden near Vienna: Grasl, 2002. * ''Mama Dear''. English, translation of ''Zum Fenster hinaus''. Riverside (CA), 2002. * * ''Herz. Landschaft. Licht''. Poetry. Salzburg: Otto Müller, 2009. * Translation into German of poetry "Riflessione" by Fabio Recchia, Levico (Italian), 2009. * ''Texas Travels''. Travel narratives. Vienna: Der Apfel, 2010. * ''Herzland''. Poetry CD, 2013. * ''Zum Fenster hinaus. Eine Nachkriegskindheit''. Reissued. Salzburg, Vienna: Otto Müller Verlag, 2016. * ''Nach dem Fest''. Stories. Salzburg, Vienna: Otto Müller Verlag, 2018. * ''Von der Zärtlichkeit der Wörter'', poetry collection, 2020


As editor

Source: * Meta Merz: ''Erotik der Distanz''. Vienna, 1990. . * Meta Merz: ''Metaphysik der Begierde''. Vienna, 1996. .


Awards

Source: * 1984 Culture Prize of the City of Salzburg * 1984 Georg Rendl Literature Prize * 1990 Salzburg State Culture Prize * 2002 Max von der Grün Prize * 2002 Gold medal of * 2005 * 2012 City seal in silver of Salzburg


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haidegger, Christine 1942 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Austrian women writers Writers from Salzburg Place of death missing 21st-century Austrian women writers Austrian women poets 20th-century Austrian poets 21st-century Austrian poets