WEmma Adler was an Austrian fin de siècle journalist and writer.
WBarbara Albert is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.
WRose Ausländer was a Jewish poet writing in German and English. Born in Czernowitz in the Bukovina, she lived through its tumultuous history of belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Romania, and eventually the Soviet Union.
WSusanne Ayoub is an Austrian-Iraqi writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is known primarily for her crime novels, such as Engelsgift (2004), published by Hoffmann und Campe in Hamburg, which became an international success. The substance of her work often draws upon real experiences of women and then processed as fiction.
WGabriele von Baumberg, wife of János Batsányi, was an Austrian author and poet.
WHanna Berger was an Austrian dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, theatre director, writer and lifelong anti-Nazi.
WJil Y. Creek is an Austrian guitar virtuoso. Best known as author of the guitar workshops “Jil’s Jam” in German Gitarre & Bass Magazine, and the workbooks “Creative Guitar”, "Jil's Pentatonik Workshop für E-Gitarre" and "Arpeggio-Workbook für E-Gitarre". Besides her instrumental project, Creek has worked with German gothic acts Umbra et Imago and Lacrimosa as well as with a Frank Zappa cover band called S.W.N.B., led by Austrian legend Wickerl Adam, amongst others.
WPascale Ehrenfreund is an Austrian astrophysicist. Ehrenfreund holds degrees from the University of Vienna and Webster Leiden. Prior to becoming a Research Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs at George Washington University, she was a Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, Leiden University, and University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the first woman president of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and in 2015, was elected as CEO of the German Aerospace Center. She is the first woman to lead a major research facility in Germany. The main-belt asteroid 9826 Ehrenfreund is named in her honor.
WEtta Federn-Kohlhaas or Marietta Federn, also published as Etta Federn-Kirmsse and Esperanza, was a writer, translator, educator and important woman of letters in pre-war Germany. In the 1920s and 1930s, she was active in the Anarcho-Syndicalism movement in Germany and Spain.
WVera Ferra-Mikura was an Austrian writer best known for her children's stories.
WAuguste Fickert was a pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer. Her politics were on the left wing of Austrian feminism and she allied with proletarian organizations in campaigns around education and legal protection for working-class women.
WAlexandra Föderl-Schmid is an Austrian journalist and the first female editor of Der Standard.
WCamilla Frydan, birthname Herzl, married name Friedmann, pseudonym Herzer, (1887–1949) was an Austrian pianist, soubrette singer, composer and song writer. She performed in operettas and revues in Vienna and Berlin before she was forced to emigrate to the United States in 1938. She settled in New York where she produced hundreds of melodious numbers which were published by her Empress Music Publishing.
WElfriede Gerstl was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist.
WSylvie di Giusto is a New York based Austrian professional Speaker, Consultant and Author.
WPaula Grogger was an Austrian writer.
WMargarete Hamerschlag was an Austrian artisan, painter, author and illustrator.
WAlma Vilibalda Maximiliana Karlin was a Slovene traveler, writer, poet, collector, polyglot and theosophist. She was one of the first European women who alone circled the globe.
WRuth Klüger was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller weiter leben: Eine Jugend about her childhood in the Third Reich.
WHelene Kottanner was a Hungarian courtier and writer. Her last name is spelled variously as Kottanner, Kottanerin, or Kottannerin. She is primarily known to history as the author of memoirs about the years 1439 and 1440, when king Albert II of Germany died and his son Ladislaus the Posthumous was born. Kottanner, who dictated her life story in German, was a kammerfrau to Queen Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409–1442). She also assisted Queen Elisabeth in a royal succession plot.
WLeopoldine Kulka was an Austrian writer and editor. As editor of Neues Frauenleben she controversially met women from combatant countries at the 1915 Women's conference at the Hague.
WChristine Lavant was an Austrian poet and novelist.
WMarianne Katharina "Käthe" Leichter was an Austrian economist, women's rights activist, journalist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria and the Viennese Labour Chamber. She was detained in Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Nazi regime and killed by gas at the Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in 1942.
WPaula Ludwig was an Austrian/German poet who won the 1963 George Trakl Prize. In her earlier life she had an affair with Yvan Goll, which caused a crisis for his wife Claire Goll. In 1940 she began a period of exile in Brazil due to the rise of Nazism. Her work has fallen into relative obscurity and often involved dreams.
WRuth Maier was an Austrian woman whose diaries describing her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria and Norway were published in 2007; reviews described her as "Norway's Anne Frank."
WRosa Mayreder was an Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist. She was the daughter of Marie and Franz Arnold Obermayer who was a wealthy restaurant operator and barkeeper.
WGertrude Wirschinger, better known as Penny McLean, is an Austrian vocalist who initially gained acclaim with the disco music act Silver Convention, but also had exposure as a single recording artist. As a solo singer, she is most remembered for her million seller "Lady Bump". She is also an author.
WGrete Meisel-Hess was an Austrian Jewish feminist, who wrote novels, short stories and essays about women's need for sexual liberation.
WEva Menasse is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.
WMilena Theresia Preindlsberger von Preindlsperg was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, writer, and piano composer. Mrazović is credited for introducing Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she lived for 40 years, to the German-speaking public. She was the first journalist in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the author of the first classical compositions on its soil, but remains best known for the travel books she wrote during her long journeys. While horseback riding through remote mountain villages, Mrazović recorded Bosnian oral tradition and collected traditional costumes, building a valuable collection.
WJuliana Neuhuber is a director, screenwriter, and artist from Austria. She is based in Vienna.
WChristine Nöstlinger was an Austrian writer best known for children's books. She received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003, the biggest prize in children's literature, for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense." She received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for "lasting contribution to children's literature" in 1984 and was one of three people through 2012 to win both of these major international awards.
WBertha Pappenheim was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association. Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best documented patients because of Freud's writing on Breuer's case.
WIda Laura Pfeiffer, née Reyer, was an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer. She was one of the first female travelers, whose bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. She journeyed an estimated 32,000 kilometers by land and 240,000 kilometers by sea through Southeast Asia, the Americas, Middle East, and Africa, including two trips around the world from 1846 to 1855. She was a member of geographical societies of both Berlin and Paris, but was denied membership by the Royal Geographical Society in London as it forbade the election of women before 1913.
WErika Pluhar is an actress, singer and author from Austria and was born on 28 February 1939 in Vienna.
WAdelheid Popp was an Austrian feminist and socialist who worked as a journalist and politician.
WIrene Prador was an Austrian-born actress and writer.
WKatharina Prato, full name Katharina Pratobevera, née Polt (1818–1897) was an Austrian cookbook writer. In 1858, she published Die süddeutsche Küche which became enormously popular for decades, reaching an 80th edition in 1957.
WJulya Rabinowich is an Austrian author, playwright, painter and translator. In 1977 her family emigrated to Vienna, a move in which she describes herself as having been “uprooted and re-potted.”
WKathrin Röggla is an Austrian author and playwright. She was born in Salzburg. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, drama and radio plays. She has won many awards for her work.
WInge Sargent, also Sao Nang Thu Sandi, is an Austrian-American author, human rights activist and founder of social organizations. She was the Mahadevi of the Shan State Hsipaw and the wife of Sao Kya Seng, the last ruler Saopha of Hsipaw.
WGabriele Schor, born in Vienna in 1961, is an Austrian writer, art critic and curator. She is a specialist of the feminist avantgarde of the 1970s.
WAdele Georgina Schreiber-Krieger was an Austrian-German politician, writer and feminist. An activist for the rights of women and children, she sat in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for a total of eight years under the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She fled the nascent Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in the United Kingdom and later Switzerland, where she died.
WAlice Schwarz-Gardos was an Austrian-born Israeli journalist and author. She was noted for her work as an editor for German-language newspapers in Israel, and was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Israel-Nachrichten. She documented political and cultural events and displayed Zionism in her stance.
WEugenie Schwarzwald, née Nußbaum, was born 4 July 1872, in Polupanivka near Zbruch River in Austria-Hungary and died on 7 August 1940, in Zurich. She was an Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting education for girls in Austria. She was one of the most lettered women of her time.
WGitta Sereny, CBE was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.
WCeija Stojka was an Austrian-Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust.
WBertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate.
WCornelia Travnicek is an Austrian writer who has published several books and stories.
WMaria Friederike Cornelia "Frida" Strindberg was an Austrian writer and translator, who was closely associated with many important figures in 20th-century literature.
WRegine Ulmann née Kohn (1847–1938), also known by her pen names Gertrud Bürger and Agnes Thai, was an Austrian school director, editor and feminist. An active member of the Jewish women's movement, in 1866 she was one of six women who founded the Mädchen Unterstutzungs-Verein, later becoming the director of the association's training schools for poor Jewish girls.
WBerta Zuckerkandl-Szeps was an Austrian writer, journalist, and art critic.