Paula Grogger
Paula Grogger (12 July 1892 in Öblarn - 1 January 1984 in Öblarn) was an Austrian writer. Life Paula Grogger was the daughter of the merchant Franz Grogger and his wife Maria from Öblarn in Styria. From 1907 to 1912, she attended the teachers training college of the Ursuline nuns in Salzburg. She was one of the few women at the time to take the Austrian matriculation examination, the Matura. She then returned to Styria and taught the Enns handicrafts until 1929. He first novel, The Grimmingtor (1926), was a triumphant success and drew a picture of the Styrian landscape with the symbol of the mountain Grimming. The style, the criticism was simply, dialect and yet strong. Similar to the work of Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, the novel was still independent, with hearty humor and restrained tragedy and high above the common literature. The book was repeatedly translated and republished. Grogger belonged to the illegal Nazi Bund of German writers in Austria. After the Austrian Annexation, in 1938, she paid homage to Adolf Hitler in the Confession book of German poets. When the Gestapo, however, concerning Grogger's political stance, presented a request to the District Administrator of Gröbming, he replied on