Maria Stona

Maria Stona
Maria Stona
Born	Maria Stonawski 1859 Třebovice ve Slezku,Austrian Silesia (now Czech Republic)
Died	1944 Třebovice

Maria Stona; Marie Scholz; born Stonawski (1859–1944) was a Silesian German writer and poet. Her daughter was the sculptor Helen Zelezny-Scholz.

In Třebovice she led artistic salon. She drew into her circles many noticeable persons, world-famous artists, politicians and writers such as Georg Brandes, Georges Clemenceau, Berta von Suttner, Flinders Petrie, Stefan Zweig, being among her guests in her home the Chateau of Třebovice (Strzebowitz).

She corresponded regularly with Georg Brandes from 1899 to his death 1927.

Maria Stona died in 1944, during the World War II. In the course of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Red Army her chateau was damaged and subsequently was deteriorating. It was completely demolished in 1958.

Some of her books are available at The Royal Library in Copenhagen, where some of her letters may also be found in "Georg Brandes Arkivet".

Maria Scholz was a daughter of Joseph Stonawski, who bought the Castle Strebowitz in 1861, and his wife Marie Prymus from Soběšovice in Cieszyn Silesia. She used the first two syllables of her birth name, Stonawski, as her pseudonym Maria Stona.

In 1881 Maria Scholz married Dr. jur. Albert Scholz, a son of Alois Scholz (1821–1883), the director of the steel works of Witkowitz mining and metallurgical trade union in Moravia-Ostrava. The couple lived from 1881 to 1888 in Chropyně in Moravia, where their daughter Helen Zelezny-Scholz was born on 16 August 1882. The marriage to Albert Scholz lasted until 1899. Maria Stona most likely had a second marriage to the writer, editor and art critic Charles Erasmus Kleinert (1837–1933). In 1933, Maria Stona published a tribute to his life: An Old Austrian - Charles Erasmus Kleinert. His life and his works were published by Adolf Drechsler, Opava in Moravia.

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