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Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʁiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their ...
Childhood & Early Years. Elfriede Jelinek was born on October 20, 1946, in Mürzzuschlag, Austria to a Czech Jewish father and a Roman Catholic Viennese mother. The family later shifted to Vienna and set up their home in the city. She was mostly brought up by her mother, Olga Ilona née Buchner, a scion of a rich Viennese family.
The Piano Teacher brought Jelinek a measure of international renown, though critics were admittedly confused by the themes in the work, and by what some saw as an autobiographical element—for Jelinek divided her time between a home in Munich with her husband and periods in Vienna with her mother, who was widowed when Jelinek's father died in a psychiatric hospital in 1969.
Elfriede Jelinek The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004. Born: 20 October 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria. Residence at the time of the award: Austria. Prize motivation: “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power”.
Jun 26, 2024 · Elfriede Jelinek, 1986. ... Her chief examples are refuse and human corpses, which “show me what I permanently thrust aside in order to live. These body fluids, this defilement, this shit are ...
Jun 16, 2005 · With her fellow-countrymen Karl Kraus and Thomas Bernhard as satirical and polemical models, Jelinek is a peculiarly inconvenient and sharp critic of Austrian society and its Catholic and authoritarian background. Jelinek perceives herself as a combatant feminist with clear left-wing sympathies. Remorselessly, she exposes the hypocracies, the ...
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Elfriede Jelinek was born in 1946 in Mürzzuschalg in Styria. She studied music at the Vienna Conservatory and then studied drama and art history at the University of Vienna. There was considerable tension between her parents, and her father was interned in a mental institution. Jelinek herself then suffered a mental breakdown when she was ...
