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Ilse Aichinger (born 1 November 1921 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.

Life

Aichinger was born in 1921 along with her twin sister, Helga, to a Jewish doctor (her mother) and a Christian teacher. She spent her childhood in Linz and Vienna, where her family was subjected to Nazi persecution starting in 1933.

Aichinger began to study medicine in 1945, working as a writer on the side. In her first novel, Das vierte Tor (The Fourth Gate), she wrote of her own experience under Nazism.

After studying for five semesters, Aichinger interrupted her studies in medicine again in 1948 in order to finish her second novel, Die größere Hoffnung (The Greater Hope).

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In 1953, she married the German writer Günter Eich.

In 1955, Aichinger was awarded the Immermann-Preis by the city of Düsseldorf and in 1956, she joined the Akademie der Künste of Berlin. In 1957, Aichi