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Mar 30, 1906 Vienna, Austria Died on 14 Oct 2001 (aged 95)
Austrian writer
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About Erika Mitterer
- Erika Mitterer (1906–2001) was an Austrian writer.
- 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).
- She wrote about 117 poems to him in all.
- This was the only time Rilke had a productive poetic collaboration throughout all his work.
- She also visited Rilke.
- When she was 24 her first volume of poems was published; it was well-received, and Stefan Zweig called her "a great poet".
- During the time of Nazi Germany she wrote for the periodical Das innere Reich, and also published the novel The Prince of Darkness.
- In 1950, her "Correspondence in Verse" with Rilke was published, and received much praise.
- In 1992 a documentary about her, titled Ericka Mitterer, Das Videoportrait: Dank des Lebens was made.
