nytimes June 7, 2021 12:00am Friederike Mayröcker, Grande Dame in German Literature, Dies at 96 #mayrockerfriederike19242021 #deathsobituaries #booksandliterature #writingandwriters #germanlanguage #poetryandpoets #austria #germany #news Friederike Mayröcker, Grande Dame in German Literature, Dies at 96 An Austrian, she was among the most decorated German-language poets of the postwar period, producing a large body of daring work.