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Ilse Aichinger (born 1 November 1921) is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.〔("Ilse Aichinger" ), ''Encyclopædia Britannica''〕 == Life and career == Aichinger was born in 1921 in Vienna, along with her twin sister, , to a doctor, her mother Berta of Jewish ethnicity, and a teacher, Ludwig.〔("Ilse Aichinger" ) by Meike Fechner and Susanne Wirtz, in ''Lebendiges Museum Online'' 〕 As her mother's family was assimilated, Ilse was raised a Catholic.〔 She spent her childhood in Linz and, after her parents divorced, she moved to Vienna with her mother and sister. After the Anschluss in 1938 her family was subjected to Nazi persecution. As a half Jew she was not allowed to continue her studies and became a slave labourer. Her sister Helga escaped from Nazism in July 1939 through a Kindertransport to England where she eventually gave birth to the prospective English artist Ruth Rix.〔("World War II saga: Gail Wiltshire revisits Ilse Aichinger’s novel" ) by Tess Livingstone, ''The Australian'', 8 August 2015〕 Ilse Aichinger was able during the war to hide her mother in her assigned room, right in front of the Hotel Metropol, the Viennese Gestapo headquarter. But many relatives from her mother side, among them her beloved grandmother Gisela, were forcefully "resettled" to the est, in the Maly Trostenets extermination camp, near Minsk, and killed. In 1945, after the war, Aichinger began to study medicine, working as a writer on the side. In her first publication, "" (The Fourth Gate), she wrote of her own experience under Nazism. After studying for five semesters, Aichinger interrupted her studies in medicine again in 1948 in order to finish her only novel, ' (The Greater Hope, translated as ''Herod's Children''). Aichinger was invited in 1951 to join the writer's group Gruppe 47 where she met the poet and radio play author Günter Eich. She won the group's literary prize in 1952 for her short story "". Aichinger and Eich married in 1953; they had a son (1954–1998), and in 1958 a daughter, Mirjam. In 1955, Aichinger was awarded the by the city of Düsseldorf and in 1956, she joined the Akademie der Künste of Berlin. In 1957, Aichinger won the . In 1963, Aichinger moved to Großgmain, near Salzburg. In 1971, she was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize. Reviewing a 1957 volume of her short works in translation, ''The Bound Man and Other Stories'', Anthony Boucher described Aichinger as "a sort of concise Kafka," praising the title story, "", for its "narrative use of multi-valued symbolism."〔"Recommended Reading", ''F&SF'', July 1957, p. 91.〕 She was honored with the German international literary Petrarca-Preis in 1982. After 1985 Aichinger increasingly retreated from public life.〔 In 1987, she received the Europalia Literature Prize, and in 1961 and 1991, she was awarded the . Other honors included the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1995 and the 2000 , which she received along with W. G. Sebald and Markus Werner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ilse Aichinger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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