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My book has much to say about my growing up with psychoanalysis as my mother, Else Pappenheim was one of the youngest Viennese analysts to escape to the USA
Book Launch and reading from Volume II The Lost Notebook from the series, They Clasp my Hand.
I will be reading in English and Astrid Nischkauer will read from her translations to German
Another poet will be read and celebrated: Melitta Urbancic,
A lively discussion will follow moderated by Gümter Kaindldörfer. This will be mainly in German.
Exil | Erinnerung | Generationen - Elisabeth Frischauf und Sibyl
Urbancic im Gespräch.
Lesungen mit Gespräch
Zwei Neuerscheinungen aus dem Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft werden erstmals präsentiert: Die in New York lebende Psychiaterin, Dichterin und Künstlerin Elisabeth Frischauf wird ihren neuen Lyrikband "The Lost Notebook / Das verlorene Notizbuch" (2025) vorstellen. Ihre Eltern, die Psychoanalytikerin Else Frishauf (geborene Pappenheim) und der Techniker und Rechtsanwalt Stephan H. Frishauf, waren beide vor den Nazis aus Wien geflüchtet.
Zu "Melitta Urbancic. Ein Lesebuch" (2024, hg. v. Astrid Nischkauer) wird Sibyl Urbancic, Tochter der Philosophin, Lyrikerin, Bildhauerin und Übersetzerin sprechen. Der Band lädt ein, vereinzelt veröffentlichte Beiträge Melitta Urbancic', ergänzt um weitere unveröffentlichte Beiträge aus dem Nachlass, zu entdecken. Sibyl Urbancic, Chorleiterin, Musikpädagogin und Feldenkrais-Lehrerin, war ein Jahr alt, als die Familie vor den Nationalsozialisten nach Island floh. Die beiden lesen aus den Werken und sprechen über das Aufwachsen als Kind von Exilanten.
Moderation: Günter Kaindlstorfer
This is a publication of the Thoedor Kramer Gesellschaft in Vienna.
The poem will be part of my next book, The Lost Notebook, to be launched April 3 and book II of a trilogy, They Clasp my Hand.
Stolpersteine, a dream realizes itself
“My feet find unerring the paths my mother, my father, my grandparents, cousins,
great aunts, uncles took. Feet need no translation. They relax, recognize. They know homeland.
I vow to get a Stolperstein for grandma Klara, whose name I hold between the arms of my first and last name.” (excerpt from The Lost Notebook) to be published and launched April 3, 2025 in Vienna)
Years ago began the process to lay memory stones at the last addresses:
For my mother Else Pappenheim and her mother Edith, where they lived until the Nazi regime forced them out.
Luckily my mother came to the USA, but her mother had to return to Germany where she joined her sister and brother-in-law in Bonn.
Where Veronal took them into eternal sleep. Together. Rather than be degraded, then murdered in a camp.
Klara Frischauf, my paternal grandmother, and her sister. Frieda Altmann, friends with Edith lived in another neighborhood.
Taken, put into a collection apartment, then shoved into sealed train wagons to be shot naked into a killing pit outside Riga, Latvia.
I know nothing about the other murdered tenants, Rosa Blum and Georg Pollack, residents of the same buildings, but honor them too.
