!!!Grengg, Maria

Grengg, Maria, b. Stein (Lower Austria), Feb. 26, 1889, 
d. Vienna-Rodaun, Oct. 8, 1963, short-story writer, author of 
books for young people, painter. Breakthrough with the novel "Die 
Flucht zum gruenen Herrgott" (1930), the depiction of an idyll remote 
from the present. Her "Heimatromane" (sentimental regional literature) 
became a mouthpiece of Nazi ideology ("Das Feuermandl", 1935), which 
G. publicly supported after 1938. After 1945 active only as an author 
of young people's books and as an artist. Austrian State Prize 1936.

!Further works
novels: Peterl, 1932; Starke Herzen, 5 vols., 
1937; Das Kathrinl, 1950; Das Hanswurstenhaus, 1951.

!Literature
E. Galvan, Muetter-Reich. Erzaehlprose der 30er Jahre, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1986.



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