A Summons to Mistrust

Ilse Aichinger

1946

A printing error? Are your eyes getting weaker? No! You have read entirely correctly—although you may find this headline irresponsible, although . . . you find no words. Is it not precisely mistrust that is the worst and most incurable disease of this probing, injured world shaken by labor pain? Is it not the explosive charge that blows the bridges…

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Ilse Aichinger

1921–2016

Born in Vienna to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, Ilse Aichinger was raised as a Christian. Nevertheless, she was persecuted as a Mischling by Nazi policy and spent the war as a forced laborer. In 1945, she began writing about her experiences of Nazi oppression and won many literary prizes for her often surreal and allegorical short stories and poems. Aichinger was among the first Austrian writers to address the events of the Holocaust. She participated in the Gruppe 47, a postwar German writers’ group.

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