Wied, Martina eigentlich Alexandrine M. Weisl, geborene Schnabl#
b. Vienna, Dec. 10, 1882, d. Vienna, Jan. 25, 1957, writer; wrote for the magazine "Der Brenner". Secondary-school teacher in Great Britain from 1939-1947; dealt mainly with the crisis of bourgeois society ("Kellingrath", 1950). Her most important work, "Die Geschichte des reichen Juenglings" (1953), is a detailed study of the personal development of its main character. Austrian State Prize in 1952.
Further works#
Poems: Bewegung, 1919; Bruecken ins Sichtbare, 1952. - Novels: Rauch ueber St. Florian, 1937; Das Einhorn, 1948; Das Kraehennest, 1951. - Dramas, novels, tales.Literature#
H. F. Prokop, Die Romane M. W., doctoral thesis, Vienna, 1972.