{"id":325,"date":"2001-04-08T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2001-04-08T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/?p=325"},"modified":"2024-06-15T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:02:19","slug":"der-fall-flora-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/der-fall-flora-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of Flora S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Radio Feature
\nORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) 2001<\/p>\n

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Numerous adoptions and rebroadcasts by German broadcasting stations
\nNominated for the Prix Europa<\/p>\n

50 Min. 30 Sec.<\/p>\n

People always talk about \u201cgenius and madness,\u201d and it is clear that by \u201cmadness\u201d they mean \u201cgenius.\u201d In reality it is not the geniuses who are in danger of going mad, because they can always reach safety by dint of their capabilities. No matter how great their suffering, they can rely upon their genius. The ones who are really condemned are those who live together with the genius and, in extreme hardship become aware of their own inferiority.<\/p>\n

(Flora\u2019s Diary)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the age of twelve, Flora S. dreamed of Liebestod, <\/em>love-death. At that time, however, she did not yet know with whom she would consummate it. That changed when, after years of obsessive infatuation with Alfred Hrdlicka, she became his lover. Her passion for the artist, thirty-three years her senior, developed into murderous bondage. She was there for him twenty-four hours a day if he required it, his devoted slave, boundless in her violent jealousy. She gave up her acting career and lived only for him. Not only as his lover, but also as his secretary, chauffeur, and personal assistant.<\/p>\n

\"Sch\u00f6nes<\/a>
Happy New Year 1994<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m responsible for your archive, for your bookkeeping, for your transportation, maybe even for occasional edifying discussions about art or things like that, and then for the hours we spend between ourselves in the Prater studio, and for nothing else!!! I don\u2019t want to know any details of the rest of your life, I just want to be where my existence is not questioned. I wish you would you finally realize that and stop trying to take my peace of mind away from me. No matter how much I owe to you and my life together with you, that does not give you right to play games with my life, only for the sake of being reassured: Aha, she does love me after all! Ha ha, aren\u2019t I great? (an unsent letter from her posthumous papers)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Flora\u2019s personal tragedy \u2013 not being significant enough \u2013 is revealed in the pictures and writings that she kept hidden from Alfred Hrdlicka to be a fateful error. She was a woman of many talents, with wit, charm, intelligence. A remarkable personality and a versatile artist. Flora S. took her own life on January 26, 1999. She was 37 years old.<\/p>\n

Translation Geoffrey C. Howes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Flora
Flora shortly before her death<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Abschiedsbrief:<\/a>
Farewell letter: \u201cIn the event that Alfred Hrdlicka and I should pass away.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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