!!!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.



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