»Jimi the Polar Bear was lying in the arms of the sleeping child, his paws crossed. It was 1 very young polar pear the size of a puppy and he hardly dared to breathe so as not to wake the child. The child was dreaming that Jimi was lying in its arms and told him 1 story.«
Thus begins the short poetic story of Jimi the Polar Bear and the child Emma, told by the great Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker, with twelve illustrations by one of the most renowned picture book artists,...
»Jimi the Polar Bear was lying in the arms of the sleeping child, his paws crossed. It was 1 very young polar pear the size of a puppy and he hardly dared to breathe so as not to wake the child. The child was dreaming that Jimi was lying in its arms and told him 1 story.«
Thus begins the short poetic story of Jimi the Polar Bear and the child Emma, told by the great Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker, with twelve illustrations by one of the most renowned picture book artists, Angelika Kaufmann.
»I can’t say that something has changed. I don’t feel old. And sometimes it even gets to the stage that I run around barefooted in Deinzendorf like a child.« Friederike Mayröcker
»Childishly delicate and dreamily lucid the two artists tell this glimmer of a story that glides past in fourteen images, drawn and glued together with scraps of colourful paper. […] The gift this wonderful book makes is that a dozen images are celebrating a time when stuffed animals are alive.« Wilhelm Trapp, DIE ZEIT
»In Angelika Kaufmann’s breezy, merry images, the child Emma experiences a wonderful morning in the garden with her polar bear Jimi.« Stuttgarter Nachrichten
»Childishly delicate and dreamily lucid the two artists tell this glimmer of a story that glides past in fourteen images, drawn and glued together with scraps of colourful paper. […] The gift this wonderful book makes is that a dozen images are celebrating a time when stuffed animals are alive.« Wilhelm Trapp, DIE ZEIT
»In Angelika Kaufmann’s breezy, merry images, the child Emma experiences a wonderful morning in the garden with her polar bear Jimi.« Stuttgarter...
Friederike Mayröcker was born in 1924 in Vienna, where she died in 2021. From 1946 to 1969 she taught English at various secondary schools in Vienna. Her first literary works date back to 1939. She began publishing poems in journals in 1946, her first book was published in 1956. She wrote poetry, prose, plays, radio plays and children's books and was honoured with numerous distinguished national and international literary awards.
Friederike Mayröcker was born in 1924 in Vienna, where she died in 2021. From 1946 to 1969 she taught English at various secondary schools in...
Angelika Kaufmann, born in St. Ruprecht, Austria, in 1935, lives in Vienna and the Waldviertel. She exhibits her room installations, book objects, works on paper and fabrics in Austria and abroad and has illustrated numerous children's books.
Angelika Kaufmann, born in St. Ruprecht, Austria, in 1935, lives in Vienna and the Waldviertel. She exhibits her room installations, book objects,...
»Esteemed listeners, do not try to lift the secret of this text«, orders Friederike Mayröcker in her new work of prose – but even its title leaves an infallible...
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fleurs – the flowers, the flower petals, they give this book its title, make us think of spring, of mild air and gently flowing ribbons. But if you let yourself be lured onto that...
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Friederike Mayröcker doesn’t have time. Neither for résumé and memory, nor for extensive observations and reasoning and certainly not for storytelling. She doesn’t even have time for life itself...
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Études is what Friederike Mayröcker calls her prose poetry and lyrical prose pieces, studies then, or »shreddings«, as she says, splintering, brittle and highly concentrated; the language...
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»brütt«. To Friederike Mayröcker a symbol of pain and hardship, of the cold and of grief, were it not for the »sighing gardens« that lend a soft counterbalance to the stirrings of love...
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More than an account of a train trip from Paris to Vienna, Night Train depicts a journey through life, as conceived by the female narrator.
In poetic prose...
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