“I want to write until the end,” Friederike Mayröcker told Der Standard in 2016, “until I really can’t anymore.” Chicago Review is saddened to hear of her passing on June 4, 2021, marking the end of a remarkable 67-year career with over 100 books, dozens of radio plays, and a libretto left in its wake.
Today, we remember Mayröcker’s numerous contributions, to the German-speaking literary world and to Chicago Review. Mayröcker’s publications include Death by Muses and as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window, and she won a number of literary prizes both in Austria and internationally. Her work first appeared in Chicago Review in 1978 (29:03) with two poems, Odysseus Variations and On a Sea of Air. Most recently in Spring 2018 (61:02), we were fortunate to publish an excerpt from her collection, etudés. We include a section below.
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