Requiem for Ernst JandlA lyrical requiem for Mayrcker's late partner, the writer Ernst Jandl. Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrckerand bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrcker immediately began attempting to come to terms with his death in the way that poets struggling with loss have done for millennia: by writing. Requiem for Ernst Jandl is the powerfully