Austrian writer, poet and playwright
Dora von Stockert-Meynert, born Theodora Meynert (May 5, 1870 – February 24, 1947), was an Austrian writer, poet and playwright.
Life.
Dora von Stockert-Meynert was the daughter of Johanna Meynert (1837-1879), the co-founder and first president of the Vienna Housewives Association, and the psychiatrist and university teacher Theodor Meynert. Her grandfather was the writer and critic .
In 1889 she married the civil servant Leopold von Stockert (1860-1938). They had four children, the daughters Emmi, Dorit and Margarethe and the son , who worked as a psychiatrist.
In 1901 she published her first novel, "Grenzen der Kraft" ("Limits of Power"). She founded Panthea, the Association of Women's Artistic Organizations, and was a member of Concordia, an association of Austrian writers and journalists founded in 1859, which later became part of the , and a member of International PEN. After the end of the First World War she volunteered as President of the Association of Writers and Artists.
In 1926 she was awarded the Ebner Eschenbach Prize. In 1930 she authored the intellectual biography "Theodor Meynert und seine Zeit" (""Theodor Meynert and his time"). For the play "Die Blinde" ("The Blind"") she received Niederösterreichischen Lands-Autorenpreis.
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