Wibmer-Pedit, Fanny eigentlich F. Wibmer, geborene Pedit#
b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Feb. 19, 1890, d. Lienz (Tyrol), Oct. 27, 1967, writer. While working on her parents farm, she observed peasant life in the Tyrolean mountains; lived in Vienna from 1912-1935. Started to write at the age of 38 and wrote widely known historical novels ("Eine Frau traegt die Krone", 1937; "Die Welserin", 1940; "Graf und Herzog", 1954; "Magarete Maultasch", 1969); also catholic-conservative and sometimes mythologising novels on rural life ("Heimkehr zur Scholle", 1938).
Further works#
Novels, narratives, legends, books for young people, religious amateur plays, folk plays.Literature#
E. Margreiter-Wilscher, F. W.-P. Versuch einer Monographie, doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1983.