Klara Mautner

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Klara Mautner (born March 20, 1879 in Vienna ; † October 22, 1959 there ) was an Austrian journalist and translator.

life and work

Klara Mautner came from a Jewish family. After finishing school, she took piano lessons at the Vienna Conservatory and took the two-year teacher training course. In the following years she worked as a piano teacher. Your first currently known article comes from 1905, it is a book review for the "New Women's Life". She soon wrote articles for "Die Zeit", the "Neue Freie Presse" and the "Arbeiter-Zeitung".

Klara Mautner moved to Trieste with her husband, the doctor Jakob Mannheim, (married in 1907), but they returned to Vienna at the beginning of the First World War , where Klara Mautner worked as a piano teacher and journalist for various newspapers and increasingly embraced the ideas of social democracy turned to. In 1920 she translated a collection of Norwegian fairy tales, she also acted as editor of this book. Klara Mautner wrote articles for a large number of daily newspapers and magazines, including for the left-liberal evening , the social democratic workers' will in Graz, and from 1933 - during the time of the corporate state - for the Neue Wiener Tagblatt . Klara Mautner published under her maiden name all her life.

In the course of her career as a journalist, Klara Mautner published many articles that were socially critical and documented her attachment to social democracy, several articles on health issues (her husband was a doctor) and many reports on her extensive travels. She also wrote countless theater and book reviews.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , the couple was only able to flee to Great Britain via Italy in June 1939 . Mautner worked in a clothing and lace factory in Nottingham . It was not until 1947 that she was still writing for the Arbeiter-Zeitung from Great Britain . In July 1949 she returned to Vienna, where she worked as a journalist again. Klara Mautner died on October 22, 1959 in Vienna, she is buried at the Central Cemetery.

Publications

  • Anywhere and anytime . Fairy tales from all countries [ed. and over. by Klara Mautner]. Graphic workshop, Vienna 1922. Vol. 1–3. 7-10. 12. (Signature of the ÖNB: 544234-B)
  • Ilse Frapan-Akunian [obituary] (1st year, no. 1, 1909)
  • The woman created by the man . Confessions of a Woman by Hulda Garborg (review) (7th year, no.3, 1905)
  • Alice Shellk. "Das Fräulein" (Klara Mautner) (7th year, no. 9, 1905)
  • Individual articles in Neues Frauenleben

literature

  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 .
  • Bruno Jahn (adaptation): The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 .
  • Martin Erian: Report and feature pages - antipodes in lockstep? On the operational journalism of Elisabeth Janstein and Klara Mautner . In: Hildegard Kernmayer, Simone Jung (Hrsg.): Feuilleton. Writing at the interface between journalism and literature. Bielefeld: transcript 2017, pp. 125–149.
  • Eckart Früh: Klara Mautner. In: Traces and Remnants: Bio-bibliographical sheets. No. 50, Vienna 2004.
  • Ingrid Haunold: The Austrian journalist Klara Mautner (1879–1959). Diploma thesis, Vienna 1992.
  • Ingrid Haunold: The journalist Klara Mautner (1879–1959). In: Medien & Zeit 9. No. 4, 1994, pp. 14-18.
  • Dieter J. Hecht: Niches and Chances - Jewish Journalists in the Austrian Daily Press before 1938. In: Medien und Zeit 18. No. 2, 2003, p. 33.

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personal data
SURNAME Mautner, Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1959
Place of death Vienna