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Vienna – "Especially fond of children", she is not, has always said Christine Nöstlinger. However, this is not an obstacle as the Wienerin Resche has become the most important author of children's books in Austria – yet created a work that goes well beyond children's literature. Christine Nöstlinger died at the age of 81, as it was called on Friday
Nöstlinger was born on October 13, 1936, daughter of a watchmaker and teacher from kindergarten to Vienna, a city to which she remains closely badociated. The child of a socialist family originally wanted to study fine arts and began studying commercial graphics at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. But two marriages hindered and two girls (1959 and 1961). As Nöstlinger was more bored as a housewife and mother, she drew and wrote "Die Feuerrote Friederike" (1970) – a clbadic until now.
More than 100 published works
The text was so successful Could devote the writing. His work has more than 100 works today. Nöstlinger did not leave it to the sketch of a perfect child world, quite the opposite. In her autobiographical novel "May Beetle, Fly" (1973) and her successor "Zwei Wochen in May" (1981), she was one of the first German-speaking authors to reflect on the years of war and after -war.
For example, "The children of the children's cellar" (1971), "We whistle to the king cucumber" (1972), of which more than one million books were sold, "A man for mom" (1972), "Attention, Vranek seems harmless enough" (1974), "Rosa Riedl Schutzgespenst" (1979), "The Dog Comes!" (1987), "The Dwarf in the Head" (1989), "Anna and Rabies "(1990) or" Villa Henriette "(1990). 1996), which, like many other books, was filmed
Humorous Social Criticism and Fantasticism
Nöstlinger treated problematic topics in a humorous way, combining realistic backgrounds in his books, social criticism and fantasy in a language with new dialectical and idiosyncratic creations. "I do not have to follow what adults want! I am a free child and I know best what is good for me," he says in "Hugo, the child in the best years" (1984) Such an attitude marked a turning point in the early Nöstlinger years in the tradition of children's literature of the index and reached the liberal nerve of the generation after 1968.
The highly productive 'factory of individual letters "(Nöstlinger on Nöstlinger) Radio plays and plays and worked – among other things as a literary critic – for radio and various newspapers and magazines.For the ORF she created the radio series" Dschi -Dschei-Wischer "circa 1979, in his (among other titles) also appeared in columns of books for various newspapers still sounded the social and political commitment of the author, which 1997-1998 Rights Organization of the man "SOS human compatriots" was, she was a co terse and humorous, the example even of a Viennese woman with a heart, but she rarely drew a corner of her mouth.
Legendary books of dialectal poetry
Thus, Nöstlinger's work was not limited to the common people. "Being a woman is not a sport" is the title of a collection of chronicles published by the 75 years under the title of "Book of the house for all situations of life" (Residenz Verlag) . Nöstlinger's best-known adult texts include poetry volumes in the dialect "Iba de Gaunz oaman Kinda" (1974), "Iba de Gaunz oaman Fraun" (1982) and "Iba de Gaunz oaman mauna" (1987). On non-fiction books appeared among other things "A dog entered the kitchen." Small Köchelverzeichnis for men "(1996) and" ABC for grandmothers "(1999) – a role that she took in the past, even in private life. His two daughters, Christiane Nöstlinger and Barbara Waldschütz, contributed to the illustration of several of his books
. Christine Nöstlinger has not only been honored for her work, the list of awards that the Viennese has made during her life continues. received. In 1974, 1979 and 1987 there was the Austrian State Prize for Children and Young People, in 1984 the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for his complete works, in 1998 the honorary prize of the Austrian book for tolerance in thought and the action and 2003 the first Astrid Lindgren Award, the "Nobel Prize for Children's Literature". In the same year Nöstlinger received the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, in 2011 the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic. In 2014, the Austrian Children's Book Award "When my father wanted to marry the mother of Anna Lachs" was added, and two years ago, in 2016, the award of the Federal Ministry of Health and Women for the whole of life
However, the legendary smoker's health has quickly worsened. "This is not the best – but it's still a nice life," Nöstlinger told APA on the occasion of her 80th birthday in 2016. There are a few Christine Nöstlinger days, as announced Friday, died at the age of 81 years. The funeral took place in a small circle in Vienna. (TT.com, APA)
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