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Emma Geist , married or widowed Emma Romstorfer , (* February 6, 1911 in Vienna as Emma Anna Kronsteiner ; † June 16, 2002 ibid) was an Austrian writer who wrote books for children and young people, especially in the 1940s. At that time she was also known by her nickname Emmy Geist .

Life

Emma Geist was born in Vienna on February 6, 1911 as the daughter of the cooper Heinrich Kronsteiner and his wife Katharina (née Paulin), a housekeeper and caretaker. From 1917 to 1922 she attended elementary school and subsequently from 1922 to 1925 the community school. She then completed a voluntary year in the community school of the “One-year course of the municipality of Vienna for girls who have outgrown compulsory schooling”, in which practical life experiences were imparted. Then she attended a one-year course for the training of educators of the Association of Working Women in 1926/27 and then came to the municipal kindergarten teacher training institute , which was only opened in 1924 by theBurggasse was moved to Dörfelstraße in Vienna's 12th district . There she was taught by Anton Tesarek and Franz Wollmann , among others . As early as 1925 she attended advanced training courses at the adult education center . In 1934 she married Rudolf Johann Geist (1900–1957) with whom she was married until his death at the age of 57. From this marriage there were four children: Till Hans Geist (* 1935), senior teacher and Protestant pastor i. R., Erda Doris Rubik (* 1938), Rainer Rudolf Geist (* 1941), official director of the Staatsdruckerei i. R. and Robert Martin Geist (* 1948), commercial clerks.

From 1930 the pedagogue, who was still called Kronsteiner at the time, worked as a kindergarten teacher in a Viennese Montessori children's card and was dismissed for political reasons in 1934 following the February fights . At that time she was a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of German Austria (SDAPDÖ). Her husband, whom she married earlier that year, was also in political detention for a while. During this time she was employed by the municipal administration, where she initially did auxiliary work and later did office work in the so-called card office. After she had to leave the SDAPDÖ in 1934, she was a member of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) between 1945 and 1947 and from around 1950 a member of the now Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). As such, she was also a member of the Association of Socialist Freedom Fighters and the Social Democratic Teachers' Association of Austria (SLÖ).

From 1952 to 1973 she was again employed as a kindergarten teacher for the municipality of Vienna. After completing an apprenticeship as a kindergarten director at the Pedagogical Institute of the City of Vienna in 1961/62 , she was active as a kindergarten director from 1970 until her retirement in 1973. At the suggestion of her then husband Rudolf Geist, she began writing books for children and young people during her pregnancy. Her best-known work Mizzerl - good and bad and so like you. The story of a Viennese child , which was published in 1946 by Im Weltweit Verlag and contains illustrations by her first-born son Till Geist, was created at the same time. The book Ein Christkindl , which was created in collaboration with Rudolf Geist, was also published in 1946 . As a writer, she was a member of the Austrian Writers ' Association, which was founded in 1945 .

From October 21, 1970 until his death a few months later, she was married to the engineer Johann Paul Romstorfer (1899–1971), a technical employee.

Emma Anna Romstorfer died on June 16, 2002 at the age of 91 in her hometown of Vienna. First buried at the side of her last husband at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 109, row 2, number 11), she was transferred to the Baumgartner Friedhof (group D1, number 486), in the family grave of her first husband , on March 20, 2013 .

Publications (selection)

  • 1946: Mizzerl - good and bad and just like you. The story of a Viennese child , with illustrations by her first-born son Till Geist
  • 1946: A Christkindl , with Rudolf Geist

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Romstorfer's grave on the official website of the Vienna Cemeteries , accessed on July 23, 2019
  2. ↑ Emma Geist's grave on the official website of Friedhöfe Wien , accessed on July 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Spirit, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geist, Emmy (nickname); Kronsteiner, Emma Anna (maiden name); Geist, Emma Anna (married, later widowed name); Romstorfer, Emma Anna (married, later widowed name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2002
Place of death Vienna , Austria