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Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner (16 March 1902 – 3 January 1991) was an Austrian-born Jewish writer, playwright, and screenwriter who was exiled from Germany and Austria, best known for her novel Manja (1938).
Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner, verh. Wiesner, später Morduch, Pseudonym Anna Reiner (* 16. März 1902 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn; † 3. Januar 1991 in York) war eine österreichisch-britische Schriftstellerin.
Jan 3, 1991 · Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner was an exiled German and Austrian author, playwright and scriptwriter, who is now best known for her novel Manja (1939). She also wrote under the names Anna Reiner, and Anna Morduch. Her daughter was the children's writer Eva Ibbotson. ...more. Combine Editions. Anna Gmeyner’s books.
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In Paris she met the Russian philosopher Jascha Morduch; she married him, and from 1935 they lived in England. Gmeyner’s novel Manja was published in Amsterdam in 1938 (Querido). Following Morduch’s death in 1950, she published many books in English under the name Anna Morduch. Gmeyner died in 1991.
Sep 23, 2015 · Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner was an exiled German and Austrian author, playwright and scriptwriter, who is now best known for her novel Manja (1939). She also wrote under the names Anna Reiner, and Anna Morduch.
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May 3, 2011 · Manja by Anna Gmeyner is certainly not one of the happy, domestic Persephone titles but it may just be my favourite. It is the story of five young children, four boys and one girl, the eponymous Manja, growing up in Germany during the inter-war period.
Anna Gmeyner was born in Vienna in 1902 and, like the female heroes in her plays, remained a self-determined outsider, a figure of transit. The technical advancements and the reactionary bourgeoisie of her time were the inspiration for her first play, AUTOMATENBÜFFET, written in 1932.
