Elfriede Jelinek's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

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Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʁiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. The birth-card coordinate for October 20 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2004 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Elfriede Jelinek's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Elfriede Jelinek. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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Elfriede Jelinek in the public record

She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language. Elfriede Jelinek was born on 20 October 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria, the daughter of Olga Ilona (née Buchner), a personnel director, and Friedrich Jelinek. She was raised in Vienna by her Romanian-German Catholic mother and a non-observant Czech Jewish father (whose surname Jelínek means "little deer" in Czech). Her mother's family was of a bourgeois background, while her father was a working-class socialist. Her father was a chemist, who managed to avoid persecution during the Second World War by working in strategically important industrial production. However, many of his relatives became victims of the Holocaust. Her mother, with whom she had a strained relationship, was from a formerly prosperous Vienna family.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Elfriede Jelinek (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs

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She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".

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Also on the record

1. At the age of six, Jelinek was a patient of Hans Asperger, which she later described as "a crime [...] Instead of sending me out to play in the company of kids my age, my mother sent me into the company of severe neurotics and psychopaths." In 1995, she stated that she was "[n]ot an Asperger autistic, though indeed not far off." As a child, she attended a Roman Catholic convent school in Vienna.
2. Her mother planned a career for her as a musical "Wunderkind".
3. She was instructed in piano, organ, guitar, violin, viola, and recorder from an early age.
4. Later, she went on to study at the Vienna Conservatory, where she graduated with an organist diploma; during this time, she tried to meet her mother's high expectations, while coping with her psychologically ill father.

Other laureates with this card

• Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
• Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Alexis Carrel — 1912 Physiology or Medicine
• Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Hannes Alfvén — 1970 Physics
• 11 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Elfriede Jelinek's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. October 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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