Emma AdlerW
Emma Adler

Emma Adler was an Austrian fin de siècle journalist and writer.

Barbara AlbertW
Barbara Albert

Barbara Albert is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.

Rose AusländerW
Rose Ausländer

Rose 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.

Susanne AyoubW
Susanne Ayoub

Susanne 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.

Gabriele von BaumbergW
Gabriele von Baumberg

Gabriele von Baumberg, wife of János Batsányi, was an Austrian author and poet.

Hanna BergerW
Hanna Berger

Hanna Berger was an Austrian dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, theatre director, writer and lifelong anti-Nazi.

Jil Y. CreekW
Jil Y. Creek

Jil 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.

Pascale EhrenfreundW
Pascale Ehrenfreund

Pascale 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.

Etta FedernW
Etta Federn

Etta 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.

Vera Ferra-MikuraW
Vera Ferra-Mikura

Vera Ferra-Mikura was an Austrian writer best known for her children's stories.

Auguste FickertW
Auguste Fickert

Auguste 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.

Alexandra Föderl-SchmidW
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid

Alexandra Föderl-Schmid is an Austrian journalist and the first female editor of Der Standard.

Camilla FrydanW
Camilla Frydan

Camilla 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.

Elfriede GerstlW
Elfriede Gerstl

Elfriede Gerstl was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist.

Sylvie di GiustoW
Sylvie di Giusto

Sylvie di Giusto is a New York based Austrian professional Speaker, Consultant and Author.

Paula GroggerW
Paula Grogger

Paula Grogger was an Austrian writer.

Margarete HamerschlagW
Margarete Hamerschlag

Margarete Hamerschlag was an Austrian artisan, painter, author and illustrator.

Alma KarlinW
Alma Karlin

Alma 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.

Ruth KlügerW
Ruth Klüger

Ruth 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.

Helene KottannerW
Helene Kottanner

Helene 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.

Leopoldine KulkaW
Leopoldine Kulka

Leopoldine 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.

Christine LavantW
Christine Lavant

Christine Lavant was an Austrian poet and novelist.

Käthe LeichterW
Käthe Leichter

Marianne 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.

Paula LudwigW
Paula Ludwig

Paula 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.

Ruth MaierW
Ruth Maier

Ruth 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."

Rosa MayrederW
Rosa Mayreder

Rosa 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.

Penny McLeanW
Penny McLean

Gertrude 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.

Grete Meisel-HessW
Grete Meisel-Hess

Grete Meisel-Hess was an Austrian Jewish feminist, who wrote novels, short stories and essays about women's need for sexual liberation.

Eva MenasseW
Eva Menasse

Eva 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.

Milena MrazovićW
Milena Mrazović

Milena 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.

Juliana NeuhuberW
Juliana Neuhuber

Juliana Neuhuber is a director, screenwriter, and artist from Austria. She is based in Vienna.

Christine NöstlingerW
Christine Nöstlinger

Christine 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.

Bertha PappenheimW
Bertha Pappenheim

Bertha 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.

Ida Laura PfeifferW
Ida Laura Pfeiffer

Ida 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.

Erika PluharW
Erika Pluhar

Erika Pluhar is an actress, singer and author from Austria and was born on 28 February 1939 in Vienna.

Adelheid PoppW
Adelheid Popp

Adelheid Popp was an Austrian feminist and socialist who worked as a journalist and politician.

Irene PradorW
Irene Prador

Irene Prador was an Austrian-born actress and writer.

Katharina PratoW
Katharina Prato

Katharina 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.

Julya RabinowichW
Julya Rabinowich

Julya 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.”

Kathrin RögglaW
Kathrin Röggla

Kathrin 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.

Inge SargentW
Inge Sargent

Inge 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.

Gabriele SchorW
Gabriele Schor

Gabriele 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.

Adele Schreiber-KriegerW
Adele Schreiber-Krieger

Adele 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.

Alice Schwarz-GardosW
Alice Schwarz-Gardos

Alice 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.

Eugenie SchwarzwaldW
Eugenie Schwarzwald

Eugenie 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.

Gitta SerenyW
Gitta Sereny

Gitta 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.

Ceija StojkaW
Ceija Stojka

Ceija Stojka was an Austrian-Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust.

Bertha von SuttnerW
Bertha von Suttner

Bertha 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.

Cornelia TravnicekW
Cornelia Travnicek

Cornelia Travnicek is an Austrian writer who has published several books and stories.

Frida UhlW
Frida Uhl

Maria Friederike Cornelia "Frida" Strindberg was an Austrian writer and translator, who was closely associated with many important figures in 20th-century literature.

Regine UlmannW
Regine Ulmann

Regine 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.

Berta ZuckerkandlW
Berta Zuckerkandl

Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps was an Austrian writer, journalist, and art critic.