Mayenburg, Ruth#

b. Srbice, Czech Republic (then Serbitz), July 1, 1907, d. Vienna, June 26, 1993, publisher, writer and translator, from an aristocratic family. Lived in Vienna from 1930 to 1934 and then again from 1945 onwards, in 1934 actively took part in the February Uprisings and had to leave Austria (for Prague, then the USSR). 1932 first marriage, to Ernst Fischer. In exile became a member of the illegal Austrian Communist Party (KPOe), supported the Red Army and worked for the press agency of the Communist International. Returning to Austria, she became General Secretary of the Austrian Soviet Society, worked as a film dramaturge for the Wien-Film company and also acted in the film "Wiener Maedeln" (1949) by W. Forst. In 1966 she left the Communist Party KPOe and concentrated on her writing.

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