Gerlinde Obermeier
Female, Deceased Person
1942 – 1984
Who was Gerlinde Obermeier?
Gerlinde Obermeier was feminist writer known for her critiques on mental health care.
She wrote I Will Not and San Francisco, of Course.
Obermeier has been credited by some critics with mystical insights in her writing. This perhaps makes too much of a visit to India. In 1976 she spent three weeks in India with Swami Paramananda Saraswati. This visit is detailed in Malachi O'Doherty's memoir, I Was A Teenage Catholic. It seems more appropriate to read her explorations of madness as relating to a celebration of anarchic thinking than as grounded in Eastern religion.
She died by suicide in her early forties in Vienna in 1984.
See also: List of dramatists.
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