Thea Leitner

Thea Leitner ( born June 1921 in Vienna ) is a Vienna-based Austrian author and journalist.

Life

Thea Leitner began after high school and one year of work service to study painting, art history and languages. After graduating, she worked first as a journalist and finally as a writer. In 1941, she put the little Dolmetschprüfung from in French at the University of Vienna.

In spring 1942, she married her childhood friend Willy and brought 1944 daughter Verena to the world. When her husband returned home from American captivity, the marriage ended in divorce. The couple had grown apart, and the confident young woman worked, which her ​​husband disliked. After her divorce she married in 1950 the lawyer and later journalist Sebastian Leitner, with whom she lived in Vienna until his death (1989).

Works

Leitner has written numerous children 's books. Her first bestseller she succeeded but with the nonfiction Habsburgs sold daughters. For this book, she received the Golden Book for more than 50,000 copies sold.

  • Grains close. A picture of life. Danubia -Verlag, Vienna, 1952.
  • The picture book from the farm. Betz, 1979 Vienna, among other things, ISBN 3-7641-0145-8 ( In English: The busy little farm Translated and adapted by Julia Bright Kestrel Books, Harmondsworth, 1979, ISBN 0-7226-5600-9; Swedish.. : Sebastian bor på en Bondgård. Svensk text av Marianne Eriksson. Rabén & Sjögren, Stockholm 1979).
  • Habsburgs sold daughters. Ueberreuter, Vienna, 1987, ISBN 3-8000-3248-1 ( numerous editions ).
  • Scandal at court. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-8000-3492-1 ( numerous editions ).
  • Habsburg Golden brides. By dowry to power. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3782-3.
  • Chicken coop and Nobel ball. From 1938 to 1955. Life in war and peace. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3927-3 ( autobiographical ).

Award

  • May 2003: Silver Medal for Service to the City of Vienna
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