Mary of Peteani

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Maria von Peteani , née Sauer, from 1919 Maria Peteani, (born February 2, 1888 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † July 28, 1960 in Linz ) was an Austrian draftsman and writer.

Life

Memorial plaque on the former home of Maria von Peteani, Mozartstrasse 26, Linz

In 1890, as a two-year-old, she and her family, who were closely involved with the art world, moved to Linz, Mozartstrasse 26, where the daughter of Postrat Edmund Sauer jun. After elementary school, it was possible to attend a girls' college.

On November 24, 1908, she married the tenor Eugen Peteani Reichsritter von Steinberg (1873–1913), fourteen years her senior, who worked in Linz under Hans Claar in 1907/08 and who was wealthy in Gorizia . Guest performances only took the opera singer through half of Europe. When he began to suffer from severe voice problems and was on the verge of financial ruin, he converted his Görzer villa into a guesthouse in 1912, supported by Maria ( Marie ). But only one year later, on April 3, 1913, the 39-year-old died of a stroke . The widow returned to her mother, Gisela Sauer († 1932), in Linz, where she kept her head above water as a draftsman until 1920, designing covers, fashion drawings and bookplates . The Munk company in Vienna issued postcards it had created with designs for women’s fashion.

She did not start writing until 1920, best known for nearly 20 novels. She has also written a number of radio plays, local article series and a large number of short stories.

The short biography of the Linz City Archives says about her novels and their protagonists: "Your novel heroines show consistently strong characters, are able to live and are usually superior to their husbands, who often appear as 'dumb fools'. Marriage is often questioned and she also shies away in no way retreats from positive descriptions of prostitutes. "

After her previous freelance work, Peteani finally worked for the Wiener Tagblatt and the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from 1926 to 1938 .

After Austria's "annexation" to the German Reich, Peteani was unable to provide evidence of Aryan status. In 1940 she received a letter from the Reich Chamber of Literature , stating that any activity as a writer was forbidden from now on, and that any violation of the penal provisions of the Reich Chamber of Culture Act would be punished.

But after 1945 she managed to get back into business relatively quickly. All of her novels were reprinted. The main area of ​​work was then no longer the novel, but the feature section and radio play.

Peteani is buried at the St. Barbara Cemetery in Linz.

An extensive partial estate (45 slip cases ) was handed over to the archive of the city of Linz in 1964/65 .

Works

Awards, honors

  • RAVAG radio play award (1935)
  • Memorial plaque on the house where he lived and where he died in Mozartstrasse 26.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. EW:  Maria von Peteani: My purpose in life, to bring joy to people. In:  Upper Austrian news. Independent daily newspaper Austrian Democrats , No. 120/1945 (1st year), October 31, 1945, p. 6 above. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oon.
  2. a b c d e Maria von Peteani, writer . In: linz.at .
  3. GBlfdLÖ 1938/191. In:  Law Gazette for the State of Austria , year 1938, pp. 555–561. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / glo.
  4. ^ Partial estate of Maria von Peteani . In: Directory of artistic, scientific and cultural-political bequests in Austria , OBV .
  5. ^ Peteani Maria - Estates, collection of materials (period: 1888–1960) . In: linz.at , the holdings of the archive of the city of Linz .
  6. Mary of Peteani . linz.at