Gerlinde Obermeir

Template:Short description Gerlinde Obermeir (1942–1984) was an Austrian feminist writer known for her critiques on mental health care.

She wrote I Will Not and San Francisco, of Course (or Positively San Francisco as she herself translated the title).<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Obermeir 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

References

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