Hanna O'Donell
Hanna Countess O'Donell , b. Bauer (born December 11, 1874 in Brno , † after 1936) was an Austrian writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym Otto Nell .
Life
O'Donell was born in Brno as the only daughter of the wealthy factory owner Ferdinand Bauer († 1875). At the age of seven she moved with her mother to Vienna , where she attended an institute . After her mother married for the second time, the young Hanna Bauer was first sent to a boarding school in Dresden and in 1887 to the Sacré Cœur monastery in Graz , where she remained until 1891.
As early as 1892 she married the dragoon rider Hermann Landsteiner. The marriage, which ended in divorce in 1900, had a sickly child who soon went blind. O'Donnell came to Protestantism and married about 1904 in Hungary the k. u. k. Chamberlain and officer Count Roderich O'Donell, with whom she moved to Veresegyház near Gödöllő .
Works
- Otto Nell: Seekers of Peace. Novel in daily leaves. Brno 1908. (Other editions: Rössler, Gablonz 1912; as well as in the series: “Das Bergland-Buch”. Deutsche Vereins-Druckerei, Salzburg et al. 1935.)
- Sic transit. Pictures and scenes from the Renaissance period . Novellas. Westermann, Berlin et al. 1915.
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 5. Brockhaus , Leipzig 1913, p. 169.
- Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . A lexicon. Metzler , Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , p. 223.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanna O'Donell in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Donell, Hanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nell, Otto (pseudonym); Bauer, Hanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1936 |