She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
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Jeannie Ebner was born on November 17, 1918, in Sydney, Australia, to Johann Ebner and Ida Ganaus. Her parents lived together until Johannes death in 1926, although Johann was technically married to a madwoman institutionalized in Vienna. When Ida Ganaus and Johann Ebner moved to Weiner Neustadt, Austria, however, Ganaus and Jeannie were legally granted the Ebner name.
In Weiner Neustadt Jeannie studied in the Austrian schools, though she retained her command of English throughout her life. After two years at a commercial college, Ebner joined the family forwarding business. She learned the trade sufficiently well, but decided in 1941 to leave the business to a manager while she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. This genteel arrangement suited everyone; but in 1945, an air raid annihilated Ebner's home and business. Ebner and her mother made a brief retreat to the mountains of Tirol, and then a brief stopover in Golling, but by the fall of 1946 they returned to Vienna.
In Vienna Ebner typed for the United States military forces while she began to work on her first novel. It was published in 1954, and though it sold only 507 copies in its first year, the novel made Ebner's name known among the Viennese literati.
Sie warten aug Antwort, Ebner's first novel, tells the story of Angelika and Muni, two strangers from paradise who arrive in a capital city. The two can barely remember the Eden they left behind, however, and each becomes helpless in this new land, where large institutions dictate behavior utterly. The novel, like much of Ebner's work, relates the necessity of binding free will and fate, in order to recognize one's true place in the world.
In Ebner's next novel. Die Wildnis fruher Sornmer ("The Jungle of Early Summer," 1958), she again contemplates the extent to which human beings can create their own reality. In the book, a young girl called Pin cannot reconcile her fantasy life with "the real world." Nor can she distinguish between her own visions and the visions presented to her; instead, she refuses adulthood by venturing into her fantasies permanently.
In 1964, Ebner continued her investigation of fate and will in Figuren in Schwarz und Weisz ("Figures in Black and White '), one of her most famous novels. The novel is somewhat autobiographical: after realizing what nightmares she allowed to occur by remaining uninterested in the politics of the Third Reich, Theres Meinhardt decides to become a writer. Similarly, in 1981, Ebner published Drei Flotentone ("Three Flutenotes"), in which she tells the story of three women. One, Jana, kills herself after her dancing career flops; another, Tschuptschik, kills herself rather than bring children into the unhappy world she knows; and another, Gertrud, manages to find some happiness and hope by writing.
Ebner's 1983 novel, Actaon, suggests that daydreaming may well reconcile one to old age and even death: in it, a sixty-ish woman is startled to find that she lusts after a blissfully unaware man. Her unconsummated desire is fruitful, however, in that it enables the protagonist to enjoy her own tumbled emotions and to use them as material for her books.
She died on March 16, 2004 in Vienna, Austria.
Ebner was a prominent author who wrote novels through the 1980s and 1990s; many of her books are translated into other languages. Throughout her career as a novelist, she herself translated a great many books from English to German, thus making good use of her linguistic abilities. Her work, like her character Gertrud's, enabled her to write amusedly through all life stages.
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Jeannie Ebner married Ernst Allinger, in 1964.
