Friederike Mayröcker

Friederike Mayröcker has taken her time. After the death of her fellow writer and lifetime companion Ernst Jandl, she jotted down her memories and dreams, made notes on conversations and quotes, impressions and observations and – beginning again and again – waited for the fruitful moment, writing and harvesting in one, words and sentences dropping to the paper like ripened fruit. This has produced what is in the most touching way an unconventional book of remembrance and at the same time, a grand farewell.


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Friederike Mayröcker was born in Vienna in 1924. She studied English philology and was an English teacher in Vienna till 1969, living there today as a freelance writer. Her first literary work was already produced in 1939 and after publishing poetry in Vienna’s avantgarde review “Plan”, her first book was published in 1956. Friedericke Mayröcker was friends with the Viennese poet Ernst Jandl.