Maria Theresia May

Maria Theresia May , pseudonym A. Wichodil (born January 9, 1851 in Bielitz (then Austrian Silesia ), † September 22, 1927 in Opava ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Maria Theresia May moved with her mother to Troppau in 1866, where she first trained as a governess in private lessons , then attended the teacher training institute. Here one of her professors recognized her talent as a writer. After passing her exams with distinction, May wrote her first novel Irene .

May taught at the elementary school in Karlsbad , but had to give up this activity for health reasons, whereupon she gave private lessons in Opava and worked as a writer.

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In her works May dealt with the emancipation of women and pedagogical questions, but mainly devoted herself to youth literature with youth literature, stories and poems and the publication of the Austrian youth calendar. May also worked for several specialist journals and as a reporter for educational and commercial areas, she wrote reviews of the theater in the state capital of Silesia and herself published the educational magazine Die Mädchenschule .

As a speaker, May dealt with educational topics, but also aesthetics and literature.

Publications

• Irene . An educational novella. Bertschinger et al. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1880 (signature of the ÖNB: 177.955-B)
• A riddle . Pedagogical novella. Pichler, Vienna (etc.) 1885 (signature of the ÖNB: 37.296-A)
• Under the royal fir . Novel. Berlin 1897 (award-winning)
• How it ended . In: Reichenberger Zeitung . [Supplement, first volume]. Reichenberg 1900 (signature of the ÖNB: 394197-DE)
• Little people , stories for little children. without further information
• Novellas:
  • Miss Doctor
  • Mimosa
  • Gudrun's sister
  • A monastery secret
  • Silence is golden
  • Baroness Xanthippe
  • The student
• Novels:
  • The Nazarene
  • The sun
  • Rolf Siegfried
• Comedy games:
  • Polychrome
  • The lookalike
• Several posts in:
  • The girls' school
  • The teacher waiting

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wichodil, Anna . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 55th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1887, p. 218 ( digitized version ).
• Marianne Nigg: Biographies of Austrian Poets and Writers. A contribution to German literature in Austria. Korneuburg 1893.
• May, Miss Maria Theresia . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 25 ( digitized version ).
• Wichodil, A. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 430 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Lexicon of women in two volumes. Encyclios Verlag, Zurich 1954.

Web links

• Maria Theresia May in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library