Maria von Oberndorff

Maria Theresia Katharina Leopoldine Clotilde Fortunata Philippine Countess Oberndorff (born August 31, 1867 at Rieden Castle , † February 25, 1940 in Vienna ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym Leo Tessenberg .

Life

Oberndorff was born as the daughter of the Bavarian Rittmeister Count Karl Alexander von Oberndorff († 1889) and Countess Viktoria, b. Countess Mensdorff-Pouilly, born at Rieden Castle. Her younger brother Count Karl von Oberndorff (1876–1963) has made a name for himself as a writer.

She received her upbringing first from an Englishwoman and later from German teachers before she attended the royal Max-Joseph-Stift in 1876 and from 1879 to 1885 the Higher Daughter School of the Salesians in Zangberg near Ampfing . In 1887 she was presented at court in Vienna and from then on lived in Vienna.

Works

• The Rheda von Rothenhof (novel from the present, 1893)
• The good Samaritan woman. Hanna (2 Viennese stories, 1907)

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. 166.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon (= repertories on German literary history 9). Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , p. 223.