Ilse Aichinger

Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was born in Vienna with a twin sister, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a Jewish woman doctor. Her twin reached Great Britain in 1939 on a children's transport; she stayed with her mother, whom she saved by hiding her in her own room once she came of age. Her grandmother and her mother's brothers and sisters were deported to Minsk in 1942 and murdered. She began medical studies after the war, abandoned them to write, married the poet Günter Eich in 1953 and then narrowed her work to ever briefer texts.

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• NovelHerod's ChildrenDie größere HoffnungIlse Aichinger · 1948Literature