Dora von Stockert-Meynert
Dora von Stockert-Meynert, born Theodora Meynert, was an Austrian writer, poet and playwright.
Life
Dora von Stockert-Meynert was the daughter of, 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 Hermann Meynert.In 1889 she married the civil servant Leopold von Stockert. They had four children, the daughters Emmi, Dorit and Margarethe and the son Franz Günther von Stockert, who worked as a psychiatrist.
In 1901 she published her first novel, Grenzen der Kraft. 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 Concordia Press Club, 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. For the play Die Blinde she received Niederösterreichischen Lands-Autorenpreis.
Published works
Grenzen der Kraft Sabine. Tragödie einer Liebe Vom Baum der Erkenntnis und andere Novellen Und sie gingen in ihr Königreich Erzählungen Die Liebe der Zukunft Herr Palejuk Euphorion Das Bild des Ilje Theodor Meynert und seine Zeit Vor dem Spiegel Kämpfer- ''Spiegelbilder''