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Austrian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Austria or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Emma Adler (1858–1935), journalist, historical novelist, non-fiction writer, newspaper publisher, translator * Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), essayist, non-fiction writer, novelist, acclaimed for her works on Nazi atrocities * Renate Aichinger (born 1976), playwright, theatre director *Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), early Jewish poet, author of ''Geheimniss des Hofes'' * Ruth Aspöck (born 1947), novelist, short story writer, poet * Susanne Ayoub (born 1956), Austrian-Iraqi novelist, journalist filmmaker B *Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), poet, playwright for radio, essayist, short story writer * Bettina Balàka (born 1966), novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer * Vicki Baum (1888–1960), novelist, famous for ''Menschen im Hotel'' filmed as '' Grand Hotel'' * Elsa Bernstein (1866–1949), playwright, wrote an account of her imprisonment at Theresi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Von Dovsky
Beatrice von Dovsky (14 November 1866, Vienna – 18 July 1923, Vienna) was an Austrian poet, writer, and actress. She is best known for writing the libretto for Max von Schillings's opera ''Mona Lisa'' which she presented to the composer in the spring of 1913. The subject was very topical at the time, because the painting by Leonardo da Vinci had been stolen from the Louvre in 1911, and rediscovered in Florence in 1913. The opera premiered successfully at the Staatsoper Stuttgart in September 1915, and, while not part of the standard opera repertory, has been commercially recorded three times and revived numerous times by major opera houses throughout the 20th century. Dovsky's other works include poems, short stories and works for children. Her fairy tales are among her more well known works, including ''Der Wiener Fratz'', ''Die Gnä' Frau'', and ''Zwölf Märchen aus der Ostmark'' among others. She was also active as a stage actress in Vienna. She died in 1923 at the age of 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Gmeyner
Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner (16 March 1902 – 3 January 1991) was an exiled German and Austrian writer, playwright and screenwriter, who is now best known for her novel '' Manja'' (1939). She also wrote under the names Anna Reiner, and Anna Morduch. Her daughter was the children's writer Eva Ibbotson.Julia EcclesharObituary: Eva Ibbotson ''The Guardian'', 24 October 2010 Early life Anna Gmeyner was born to liberal Jewish parents in Vienna, where her father Rudolf Gmeyner was a lawyer. She grew up in a sophisticated and intellectual household, and her parents counted Sigmund Freud among their friends.Ritchie, J.M., ''German Exiles: British Perspectives'', Vol. 6 ''Exile Studies'', (Peter Lang 1997) Having studied in Vienna from 1920, Gmeyner moved to Berlin in 1925. She married Bertold Wiesner, a controversial physician who pioneered human infertility treatment, who recently found that he was actually the father of maybe one thousand of the children his clinic in London helped to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Gerstl
Elfriede Gerstl (16 June 1932 – 9 April 2009) was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist. Biography She survived the war years by hiding in various locations with her motherat one point she had to hide in a wardrobeand thereby avoided being sent off to a concentration camp. After the war she started studying medicine and psychology at Vienna University, but ended her studies after the birth of her daughter. During the 1950s she became more and more involved in writing, and published her first work in the journal ''Neue Wege'' (New Ways) in 1955. Her first published book was ''Gesellschaftsspiele mit mir'' (Party games with me), a collection of poems and short prose that came out in 1962. In 1963 Gerstl moved to West-Berlin, where she received a scholarship from the ''Literarisches Colloquium Berlin''. While living in Berlin, in 1968–69, she wrote the novel ''Spielräume'' (Room to Manoeuvre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Frydan
Camilla Frydan, birthname Herzl, married name Friedmann, pseudonym Herzer, (1887–1949) was an Austrian pianist, soubrette singer, composer and song writer. She performed in operettas and revues in Vienna and Berlin before she was forced to emigrate to the United States in 1938. She settled in New York where she produced hundreds of melodious numbers which were published by her Empress Music Publishing. Early life Born in Wiener Neustadt on 3 June 1887, Camilla Frydan was the daughter of the bank employee Heinrich Herzl and his wife Cäcilie {née Königsberger). Her elder brother, Ludvig, and her younger sister, Clothilde, were also talented musicians. In addition to her elementary and high school education, her brother taught her piano, harmony and composition. In 1901, she received further instruction in piano from Wilhelm Rauch at the conservatory as well as private lessons from the English concert pianist John Charles Mynotti. Her voice teacher was the chamber singer Maria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Fritz
Marianne Fritz (14 December 1948 – 1 October 2007) was an Austrian writer and novelist. She is known for her multi-volume series of novels dealing with the history of Austria in the twentieth century. Her work is noted for its experimental nature and extraordinary length. Life Marianne Fritz was born in Weiz, a municipality in Styria, Austria. In the 1970s, she married the writer Wolfgang Fritz and moved to Vienna, where she would live the rest of her life. In 1978, she published her first novel ''Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse'' (The Weight of Things), for which she was awarded that year's Robert Walser Prize. The publication of this novel marked the beginning of a massive, multi-volume project referred to as ''Die Festung'' (The Fortress). This project was based on the history of the First and Second Austrian Republics. She would work on it for the rest of her life. She published her second novel and the first volume of this project in 1980 as ''Das Kind der Gewalt und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth (born 5 July 1941 in Altaussee, Salzkammergut) is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose. She is a member of the Grazer Gruppe (the Graz Authors' Assembly), along with Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored t .... Books *'' Die Klosterschule'', 1968 *'' Geschichten für Stanek'', 1969 *'' Tage und Jahre. Sätze zur Situation'', 1971 *'' Das Verschwinden des Schattens in der Sonne'', 1973. *''Rückkehr zum vorläufigen Ausgangspunkt'', 1973. *'' Haschen nach Wind. Erzählungen'', 1974. *'' Die Mystifikationen der Sophie Silber'', 1976. *''Amy oder Die Metamorphose'', 1978. *''Entzug - ein Menetekel der zärtlichsten Art'', 1979. *''Kai und die Liebe zu den Modellen'', 1979. *''Bindungen'', 1980. *''Landschaft für Engel'', 1981. *''Die Frau im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid (born 30 January 1971) is an Austrian journalist and the first female editor of ''Der Standard''. Biography Born in Haslach an der Mühl, Upper Austria, Föderl-Schmid studied at the University of Salzburg, followed by a doctorate in Communications Studies, also from the University of Salzburg. Föderl-Schmid began at Austrian newspaper ''Der Standard'' in 1990 and was the newspaper's Germany correspondent and Brussels-based European Union correspondent. She served as editor-in-chief of ''Der Standard'' from 2007 until 2017. Her other activities include: * Re-Imagine Europa, Member of the Advisory Board * Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), Member of the Advisory Board *European Press Prize The European Press Prize is an award programme for excellence in journalism across all 47 countries of Europe. It was founded in 2012 by seven European media foundations: The Guardian Foundation, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Jyllands-Posten Foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Ferra-Mikura
Vera Ferra-Mikura (February 14, 1923 – March 9, 1997) was an Austrian writer best known for her children's stories. She was born Vera Ferra in Vienna. After completing her schooling, she worked in her family's bird shop and then in a Vienna department store. During World War II, Ferra-Mikura worked as a stenographer for an architect; after the war, she worked for a publishing house. In 1948, she married Ludwig Mikura. In the same year, she became a freelance writer. Her stories, inspired by fairy tales, are characterized by magic realism. In 1951, she received a . She received an award from the International Board on Books for Young People in 1976. In 1988, she received the Gold award of the for youth literature. Ferra-Mikura was also awarded the Theodor Körner Prize. Ferra-Mikura died in Vienna at the age of 74. Selected works * '' Melodie am Morgen'', poetry (1946) * '' Melodie am Morgen'', novel (1947) * '' Zaubermeister Opequeh'', children's literature (1956) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Faschinger
Lilian Faschinger (born 29 April 1950 in Tschöran, Carinthia) is an Austrian novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary translator. Life Faschinger studied literature, history, and English at the University of Graz, earning a doctorate in English literature. Faschinger's first novel ''Die neue Scheherazade'' (''The New Scheherazade'') attracted considerable critical recognition when it appeared in 1986. Her second novel, ''Lustspiel'', appeared in 1989, followed by two collections of short stories (''Frau mit drei Flugzeugen'' (''Woman with Three Airplanes'') in 1993 and ''Sprünge'' in 1994). Her most recent novels are ''Magdalena Sünderin'' (''Magdalena the Sinner'', 1995) and ''Wiener Passion'' (''Viennese Passion'', 1999). She won international recognition with her novel ''Magdalena Sünderin'' (1995), which was translated into 17 languages. Her fiction includes a feminist critique of Austrian society and customs. Faschinger asserts the importance of writing as a mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Eckstein-Diener
Bertha Eckstein-Diener (18 March 1874, Vienna – 20 February 1948, Geneva), also known by her American pseudonym as Helen Diner, was an Austrian writer, travel journalist, feminist historian and intellectual. Her book ''Mothers and Amazons'' (1930), was the first to focus on women's cultural history. It is regarded as a classic study of Matriarchy.Brooklyn Museum Dinner party database She was a member of the ''" Arthurians,"'' a group of European intellectuals active in the 1930s, each of whom adopted a name from Arthur's Round Table (Diner was Sir Galahad). Each member undertook to research an area of knowledge hitherto little known to Western culture. Diner set out to document a feminist history of women, and infused her book ''Mothers and Amazons'' (''Mütter und Amazonen'') with lyrical and poetic language. Life Bertha Diener came from a middle-class family and received a higher education. Against the will of her parents, she married the polymath Friedrich Eckstein, a Vienne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Countess Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ( cs, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachová, german: link=no, Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach; 13 September 183012 March 1916) was an Austrian writer. Noted for her psychological novels, she is regarded as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century. Biography Early life and family She was born at the castle of the Dubský von Třebomyslice family in Zdislawitz near Kroměříž in Moravia (present Zdislavice in the Czech Republic), the daughter of Baron (from 1843: Count) Franz Joseph Dubsky von Trebomyslicz, a nobleman whose family roots are deeply Catholic and Bohemian, and his wife Maria Rosalia Therese, ''née'' Baroness von Vockel, who came from a noble Protestant-Saxon background. Marie lost her mother in early infancy, but received a careful intellectual training from two stepmothers, first Baroness Eugenie von Bartenstein, and then her second step-mother, Countess Xaverine von Kolowrat-Krako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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