{{Short description|Austrian poet and writer (1942–2021)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{infobox person | name = Christine Haidegger | image = Christine Haidegger A.JPG | image_upright = | caption = Haidegger in 2012 | birth_date = {{birth date|1942|02|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = Dortmund, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|12|05|1942|02|27|df=yes}} | death_place = | occupation = {{plainlist| * Writer * Poet }} | organisation = Salzburg Authors' Group | awards = Salzburg Poetry Prize | notable_works = ''Zum Fenster hinaus'' (''Mama Dear'') | website = {{url|http://www.christinehaidegger.at/}} }}
'''Christine Haidegger''' (27 February 1942 – 5 December 2021) was an Austrian poet and writer whose memoir ''Zum Fenster hinaus'' was translated into English as ''Mama Dear''.<ref name="MeinBezirk.at 2019_2">{{cite web | title=Autorin in St. Johann: Christine Haidegger liest am 14.03. aus neuem Erzählband "Nach dem Fest" | publisher=MeinBezirk.at | date=7 February 2019 | url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/pongau/c-lokales/christine-haidegger-liest-am-1403-aus-neuem-erzaehlband-nach-dem-fest_a3190866 | language=de | access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref> She was influential in the Salzburg literary scene.
==Biography== Haidegger was born to Austrian parents<ref name="Literaturnetz.at">{{cite web | title=Christine Haidegger | website=Literaturnetz.at | url=http://www.literaturnetz.at/salzburg/suche_60/Haidegger_Christine_191.html | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> in Dortmund, Germany,<ref name="DER STANDARD 2021" /> and grew up in Upper Austria after World War II.<ref name="MeinBezirk.at 2019">{{cite web | title=Autorin Christine Haidegger im Literaturhaus Henndorf: Christine Haidegger liest am 08.03.2019 um 19:00 aus ihrem neuen Erzählband "Nach dem Fest" im Literaturhaus Henndorf | website=MeinBezirk.at | date=7 February 2019 | url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/flachgau/c-lokales/christine-haiegger-liest-am-08032019-um-1900-aus-ihrem-neuen-erzaehlband-nach-dem-fest-im-literaturhaus-henndorf_a3190755 | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> She lived in Salzburg since the mid-1950s. After getting her ''Matura'' diploma, she spent considerable time in England, France, Italy, and the U.S.<ref name="Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung" /> She worked as a freelance writer from 1964 onward.<ref name="Literaturhaus-salzburg.at">{{cite web | title=Programm – Von der Zärtlichkeit der Wörter Do, 23.04.2020 | website=Literaturhaus-salzburg.at | url=http://www.literaturhaus-salzburg.at/content.php?id=90&programmdetail=8366 | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> Her first novel ''Zum Fenster hinaus'' describes a post-war childhood in Austria. Haidegger founded the {{ill|Salzburg Authors' Group|de|Salzburger Autorengruppe}} (SAG) and was honorary member.<ref name="DER STANDARD 2021" /><ref name="Literaturhaus Wien">{{Cite web|url=http://www.literaturhaus.at/index.php?id=5003|title=Literaturhaus Wien: Haidegger Christine|website=www.literaturhaus.at|accessdate=6 December 2021}}</ref> She was also significantly involved in the development of the {{ill|Salzburg House of Literature|de|Literaturhaus Salzburg}}.<ref name="salzburg.ORF.at red 2021">{{cite web | title=Autorin Christine Haidegger gestorben | website=salzburg.ORF.at | date=5 December 2021 | url=https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3133140/ | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> Haidegger published numerous novels, short stories, travelogues, plays and poems.<ref name="DER STANDARD 2021" /> In 1978, Haidegger took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt.<ref name="Greifeneder" /> In 1991, she was writer-in-residence at Roanoke College in Virginia, US.<ref name="Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung">{{cite web | title=Verstorbene Mitglieder | website=Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung | url=https://www.gav.at/pages/in-memoriam.php?ID=180 | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref>
==Personal life== Haidegger was married to Eberhard Haidegger.<ref name="Christine Haidegger 2015">{{cite web | title=Christine Haidegger | website=Christine Haidegger | date=14 November 2015 | url=http://www.christinehaidegger.at/ | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021 | archive-date=6 December 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206112927/http://www.christinehaidegger.at/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> They had a daughter, Christina-Maria, who also became a writer and published under the pen name {{ill|Meta Merz|de}}.<ref name="Christine Haidegger 2015" /> After her daughter died in 1989, Haidegger managed the estate<ref name="Literaturhaus-salzburg.at_3">{{cite web | title=Programm – Ein Abend für Meta Merz Do, 04.04.2019 | website=Literaturhaus-salzburg.at | url=http://www.literaturhaus-salzburg.at/content.php?id=90&programmdetail=7917 | language=de | access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref> and initiated the Meta Merz Literature Prize.<ref name="oe1.orf.at 2019">{{cite web | title=Christine Haidegger führt an unterschiedlichste Orte – FR – 25 01 2019 – 11:05 | website=oe1.orf.at | date=25 January 2019 | url=https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20190125/540554/Christine-Haidegger-fuehrt-an-unterschiedlichste-Orte | language=de | access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref>
Haidegger died on 5 December 2021, at the age of 79.<ref name="DER STANDARD 2021">{{cite web | title=Autorin Christine Haidegger ist verstorben | website=Der Standard | date=5 December 2021 | url=https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000131679498/autorin-christine-haidegger-ist-verstorben | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sn.at/salzburg/kultur/christine-haidegger-ist-gestorben-113569162|title=Christine Haidegger ist gestorben|first=Salzburger|last=Nachrichten|date=5 December 2021|website=www.sn.at|accessdate=5 December 2021}}</ref>
== Works == Haidegger published works of many genres, and edited works by her daughter Meta Merz. The jury of the Salzburg Poetry Award wrote in 2005 that her texts render convincingly both snapshots of seasons, nature and life, and existential experiences such as grief, loneliness, time and transience in an unpretentious language particularly distinguished by its apparent simplicity and careful imagery. ("{{lang|de|Alle Texte Haideggers verstehen es überzeugend, sowohl Momentaufnahmen von Jahreszeiten, der Natur und des Lebens als auch existenzielle Erfahrungen wie Trauer, Einsamkeit, Zeit und Vergänglichkeit in einer nicht-manierierten Sprache wiederzugeben, die sich besonders durch ihre scheinbare Einfachheit und behutsame Bildhaftigkeit auszeichnet.}}")<ref name="Salzburg 2005" />
=== As author === '''Source:'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.literaturhaus.at/index.php?id=5091|title=Literaturhaus Wien: Werke|website=www.literaturhaus.at|accessdate=5 December 2021}}</ref>
{{div col|colwidth=40em}} * ''Entzauberte Gesichte''. Poetry. Darmstadt: Bläschke, 1976. {{ISBN|978-3-87561-472-5}} * ''Zum Fenster hinaus. Eine Nachkriegskindheit''. Novel. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1979. {{ISBN|978-3-7013-1239-9}} * ''Adam / Adam''. Novel. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1985. {{ISBN|978-3-7046-0033-2}} * ''Atem. Stille''. Poetry. Baden: Grasl, 1993. {{ISBN|978-3-85098-213-9}} * ''Schöne Landschaft''. Collected prose. Salzburg: edition prolit, 1993. {{ISBN|978-3-901243-02-8}} * ''Amerikanische Verwunderung. Skizzenbuch zu einem Aufenthalt''. Short prose. Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag, 1993. {{ISBN|978-3-900399-84-9}} * ''Cajuns, Cola, Cadillac. American Sightseeing''. Vienna: Milena, 1997. {{ISBN|978-3-85286-050-3}} * ''Weiße Nächte''. Poetry. Baden near Vienna: Grasl, 2002. {{ISBN|978-3-85098-258-0}} * ''Mama Dear''. English, translation of ''Zum Fenster hinaus''. Riverside (CA), 2002. {{ISBN|978-1-57241-103-6}} * {{cite book| last=Haidegger | first=Christine | title=Fremde Mutter |publisher=Müller |publication-place=Vienna |date=August 2006 |isbn=978-3-7013-1119-4 | language=de }} * ''Herz. Landschaft. Licht''. Poetry. Salzburg: Otto Müller, 2009. {{ISBN|978-3-7013-1157-6}} * Translation into German of poetry "Riflessione" by Fabio Recchia, Levico (Italian), 2009. * ''Texas Travels''. Travel narratives. Vienna: Der Apfel, 2010. {{ISBN|978-3-85450-033-9}} * ''Herzland''. Poetry CD, 2013.<ref name="Literaturhaus-salzburg.at_2">{{cite web | title=Programm – Im Herzland. Fremd. Mi, 09.04.2008 | website=Literaturhaus-salzburg.at | url=http://www.literaturhaus-salzburg.at/content.php?id=90&programmdetail=3917 | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> * ''Zum Fenster hinaus. Eine Nachkriegskindheit''. Reissued. Salzburg, Vienna: Otto Müller Verlag, 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-7013-1239-9}} * ''Nach dem Fest''. Stories. Salzburg, Vienna: Otto Müller Verlag, 2018. {{ISBN|978-3-7013-1263-4}}<ref name="MeinBezirk.at 2019_2" /> * ''Von der Zärtlichkeit der Wörter'', poetry collection, 2020 {{ISBN|978-3-7013-1277-1}}<ref name="Schrofner 2021">{{cite web | last=Schrofner | first=Daniel | title=Buchempfehlung: Christine Haidegger: "Von der Zärtlichkeit der Wörter" | website=MeinBezirk.at | date=3 April 2021 | url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/salzburg/c-gedanken/christine-haidegger-von-der-zaertlichkeit-der-woerter_a4561574 | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> {{Div col end}}
=== As editor === '''Source:'''<ref name="Literaturhaus Wien" />
* Meta Merz: ''Erotik der Distanz''. Vienna, 1990. {{ISBN|978-3-900399-47-4}}. * Meta Merz: ''Metaphysik der Begierde''. Vienna, 1996. {{ISBN|978-3-85286-027-5}}.
==Awards== '''Source:'''<ref name="DER STANDARD 2021" />
* 1984 Culture Prize of the City of Salzburg * 1984 Georg Rendl Literature Prize * 1990 Salzburg State Culture Prize * 2002 Max von der Grün Prize * 2002 Gold medal of {{ill|Ehrenzeichen des Landes Salzburg|de|lt=merit of the State of Salzburg}} * 2005 {{ill|Salzburg Poetry Prize|de|Georg-Trakl-Preis für Lyrik}}<ref name="DER STANDARD">{{cite web | title=Salzburger Lyrikpreis für Christine Haidegger | website=Der Standard | url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2222095/salzburger-lyrikpreis-fuer-christine-haidegger | language=de | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="Salzburg 2005">{{cite web | title=Christine Haidegger erhält Salzburger Lyrikpreis 2005 | work=Salzburg | url=https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20051025_OTS0092/christine-haidegger-erhaelt-salzburger-lyrikpreis-2005 | language=de | date=25 October 2005 | access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> * 2012 City seal in silver of Salzburg<ref name="Greifeneder">{{cite web | last=Greifeneder | first=Johannes | title=Autorin, Herausgeberin, treibende literarische Kraft | website=Stadt Salzburg | url=https://www.stadt-salzburg.at/presseaussendungen/2012/coo100059032362746/ | language=de | access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{official|http://www.christinehaidegger.at/}}
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