Erika Mitterer
Erika Mitterer (1906–2001) was an Austrian writer.[1] When she was 18, in 1924, she began writing poems to Rainer Maria Rilke, who wrote back with approximately fifty poems of his own, and called her verse a "Herzlandschaft" (landscape of the heart).[2] She wrote about 117 poems to him in all.[2] This was the only time Rilke had a productive poetic collaboration throughout all his work.[3] She also visited Rilke.[1] When she was 24 her first volume of poems was published; it was well-received, and Stefan Zweig called her "a great poet".[4] During the time of Nazi Germany she wrote for the periodical Das innere Reich, and also published the novel The Prince of Darkness.[4][5] In 1950 her "Correspondence in Verse" with Rilke was published, and received much praise.[4] In 1992 a documentary about her, titled Ericka Mitterer, Das Videoportrait: Dank des Lebens was made.[6]
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- 1 2 Rainer Maria Rilke; Robert Vilain; Susan Ranson (14 April 2011). Selected Poems: With Parallel German Text. OUP Oxford. pp. 343–. ISBN 978-0-19-956941-0.
- 1 2 Katrin Maria Kohl; Ritchie Robertson (2006). A History of Austrian Literature 1918–2000. Camden House. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-1-57113-276-5.
- ↑ Karen Leeder; Robert Vilain (21 January 2010). The Cambridge Companion to Rilke. Cambridge University Press. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-0-521-87943-9.
- 1 2 3 Erika Mitterer (2004). The prince of darkness. Ariadne Press. p. 663. ISBN 978-1-57241-134-0.
- ↑ Frederick Ungar (1973). Handbook of Austrian Literature. F. Ungar Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8044-2929-0.
- ↑ "Accolades for February 20, 2006 – Dialog". Dialog.ua.edu. 2006-02-20. Retrieved 2016-06-30.