Elfriede Gerstl

[3] Her first published book was Gesellschaftsspiele mit mir (Party games with me), a collection of poems and short prose that came out in 1962.

[3] In 1963 Gerstl moved to West-Berlin, where she received a scholarship from the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.

[1] Gerstl's work spanned several different genres, including poems, essays and short stories.

[2] On her death in 2009, Austrian minister of culture Claudia Schmied said that German-language literature had lost an important contributor.

[3] Gerstl married author and radio editor Gerald Bisinger in 1960, with whom she had one daughter.