Abstract
Elisabeth Löcker was an influential networker in the literary field of postwar Austria. Today she is remembered mainly as a footnote within the research literature on Ingeborg Bachmann. This biographical sketch attempts to explore the mechanisms of exclusion in literary historiography and the lack of "biographical awareness." Löcker was one of Karl Jaspers's few female doctoral students in Heidelberg (PhD in 1931). She moved to Vienna afterwards and became a key figure in a dissident circle at the end of World War II ("Hochrotherd Kreis"). In 1945 Löcker played a significant role in the aspired intellectual and moral renewal after the Third Reich. She became an important promoter, friend, and landlady to Ilse Aichinger and Ingeborg Bachmann. After both had left Vienna, Löcker was the Viennese "hub" within the triangular correspondence. The devout left-wing Catholic always published under a pseudonym—mostly reviews and essays. Just before her untimely death in 1961, she tried to promote the memory of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the German-speaking region.
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