Anna Gmeyner
| Anna Gmeyner | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner 16 March 1902 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 3 January 1991 (aged 88) York, England |
| Pen name | Anna Reiner, Anna Morduch |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Period | 19291970 |
| Genre | Exile literature, drama |
| Notable works | Manja |
| Spouse |
Berthold P. Wiesner (1925–1928; divorced) Jascha Morduch (1935–1950; deceased) |
| Children | Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Wiesner) |
Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner (16 March 1902 – 3 January 1991) was an exiled German and Austrian author, playwright and scriptwriter, who is now best known for her novel Manja (1939). She also wrote under the names Anna Reiner, and Anna Morduch. Her daughter was the children's writer Eva Ibbotson.
Anna Gmeyner was born to liberal Jewish parents in Vienna, where her father Rudolf Gmeyner was a lawyer. She grew up in a sophisticated and intellectual household, and her parents counted Sigmund Freud among their friends. Having studied in Vienna from 1920, Gmeyner moved to Berlin in 1925. She married Berthold P. Wiesner, a controversial physician who pioneered human infertility treatment, who recently found that he was actually the father of maybe one thousand of the children his clinic in London helped to be conceived. Their only child, Eva (born Maria Charlotte Michell Wiesner), was born shortly before the move. The family relocated to Scotland in 1926 after Wiesner was offered a job at the University of Edinburgh, it was during this time that Gmeyner gathered inspiration for her play about the Scottish miners' strike.
Gmeyner and Wiesner separated in 1928, and Gmeyner returned to Berlin where she began to write plays. Her first theatrical works were a children's play called The Great and Little Claus and a critically acclaimed drama about the miners' strike in Scotland.
The Nazis' rise to power in 1933 prompted Gmeyner to flee Berlin, where her work was later banned. She moved to Paris, and began to work in film production, working with Bertolt Brecht and writing film scripts for G. W. Pabst. It was in Paris that Gmeyner met her second husband, the Russian philosopher Jascha Morduch.
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