Erika Mitterer

Erika Mitterer circa 1923
Erika Mitterer circa 1923
Erika Mitterer circa 1930
Erika Mitterer circa 1930
Sign for Erika Mitterer road in Vienna
Sign for Erika Mitterer road in Vienna

Erika Mitterer (1906–2001) was an Austrian writer.[1] When she was 18, in 1924, she began writing poems to Rainer Maria Rilke, who wrote back with approximately fifty poems of his own, and called her verse a "Herzlandschaft" (landscape of the heart).[2] She wrote about 117 poems to him in all.[2] This was the only time Rilke had a productive poetic collaboration throughout all his work.[3] She also visited Rilke.[1] When she was 24 her first volume of poems was published; it was well-received, and Stefan Zweig called her "a great poet".[4] During the time of Nazi Germany she wrote for the periodical Das innere Reich, and also published the novel The Prince of Darkness.[4][5] In 1950 her "Correspondence in Verse" with Rilke was published, and received much praise.[4] In 1992 a documentary about her, titled Ericka Mitterer, Das Videoportrait: Dank des Lebens was made.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Rainer Maria Rilke; Robert Vilain; Susan Ranson (14 April 2011). Selected Poems: With Parallel German Text. OUP Oxford. pp. 343–. ISBN 978-0-19-956941-0.
  2. 1 2 Katrin Maria Kohl; Ritchie Robertson (2006). A History of Austrian Literature 1918–2000. Camden House. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-1-57113-276-5.
  3. Karen Leeder; Robert Vilain (21 January 2010). The Cambridge Companion to Rilke. Cambridge University Press. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-0-521-87943-9.
  4. 1 2 3 Erika Mitterer (2004). The prince of darkness. Ariadne Press. p. 663. ISBN 978-1-57241-134-0.
  5. Frederick Ungar (1973). Handbook of Austrian Literature. F. Ungar Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8044-2929-0.
  6. "Accolades for February 20, 2006 – Dialog". Dialog.ua.edu. 2006-02-20. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
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