Gertrud Fussenegger was an Austrian writer and a prolific author, especially of historical novels.
10 Facts About Gertrud Fussenegger
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Gertrud Anna Fussenegger was born in Pilsen, a flourishing manufacturing city in Bohemia which at that time was a Crown land of the Austrian Empire.
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Gertrud Fussenegger grew up in Neu Sandez, Dornbirn and Telfs.
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Gertrud Fussenegger enrolled at the Madchen-Realgymnasium in Innsbruck in 1923.
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Gertrud Fussenegger later confided in her diaries that she sometimes felt a little regretful, listening uncomprehendingly to the chattering of her grandparents' Bohemian-born domestic servants, that having lived almost all of her first fourteen years in other parts of Austria, she had not more effectively mastered the Czech language.
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Gertrud Fussenegger went on to study history, art history and philosophy at Innsbruck and Munich.
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Gertrud Fussenegger was conscious of her reliance on the "renouveau catholique" movement which had originated in France but during the twentieth century became more of an international phenomenon.
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Gertrud Fussenegger Fassenegger authored more than sixty books, alongside various shorter prose pieces and poems, published, according to at least one source, by 25 publishers and translated into eleven languages.
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Gertrud Fussenegger joined the NSDAP in Austria in 1933 and rejoined it in Germany after the Anschluss in 1938.
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Gertrud Fussenegger still reported "overflowing tombs", but removed references to Jewish differentness and degeneracy.