It wasn’t until she was 65 that she began writing prose. Brought her first novel Ilse Helbich She came out at the age of 80, her poetry debut “Im Walking” was published at the age of 94. In 2018, she was awarded the Cultural Prize of the State of Lower Austria, and she left her literary legacy to the Documentation Center for Literature in St. Pölten. Today is Friday Ilse Helbich died at the ripe old age of 100 in her native Vienna. This was announced by her publisher Droschl.
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“How life happens”
The future author was born on October 22, 1923 in Vienna, where she also studied German. She worked as a journalist on the biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein, wrote numerous radio collages for the ORF and columns for “Die Presse”. Her late career as an author was reflected in the books “Schwalbenschrift” (2003), “Actual Status. Seven Stories from Late Life” (2007) or in the collection of early and later poems “Im Walking” (2017). Most recently, shortly before her 100th birthday, Droschl Verlag published the book “How Life Plays Like This,” which brings together three literary village stories.
