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Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig
1882–1971
An Austrian writer, translator, and memoirist, she lived close to the literary world she later described with unusual warmth and candor. Her life stretched from fin-de-siècle Vienna to exile in the United States, giving her work a strong sense of cultural change and loss.
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by Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig
About the author
Born in Vienna on December 4, 1882, Friderike Maria Zweig, née Burger, was an Austrian writer who also worked as a journalist, teacher, and translator. Several reference sources agree that she was among the early women to study at the University of Vienna, and her career grew out of that unusually broad education for the time.
She is often remembered in connection with Stefan Zweig, whom she later married, but her own writing life stands on its own. She published memoirs and biographical work and became an important witness to the literary culture of Vienna in the early twentieth century. Accounts of her life also note that she emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and spent her later years there.
She died in Stamford, Connecticut, on January 18, 1971. Today she is valued not only for her proximity to famous writers, but for the intelligent, personal perspective she brought to a turbulent period in European cultural history.