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Hilde Spiel (19 October 1911 – 30 November 1990) (pseudonyms: Grace Hanshaw and Jean Lenoir) was an Austrian writer and journalist who received numerous awards and honours.
Hildegard Maria Spiel war eine österreichische Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin, Journalistin und Essayistin. Sie wurde ob ihrer Vielseitigkeit häufig als »Grande Dame der österreichischen Literatur« bezeichnet.
May 31, 2020 · For the prolific, award-winning Viennese writer and journalist Hilde Spiel, who spent the years 1936–1963 in exile before returning to reside in Austria, London was an exciting but also alienating city that offered refuge. By her own account, it never became a place that she could truly call home.
- Lisa Silverman
- silverld@uwm.edu
- 2020
The writer Hilde Spiel and the painter Georg Eisler were among the few Jewish artists to return to Vienna. In 1969 together with Otto Breicha they revived the former Secession magazine Ver Sacrum...
Hilde Spiel was born in Vienna in 1911, less than three years before the outbreak of World War I, a global conflagration that would destroy the venerable Habsburg Empire. There, she grew up in middle-class comfort and security.
With her death on 30 November 1990, Hilde Spiel, once hailed as the "Grande Dame" of Austrian literature, provided a partial answer to the query posed in the title of her last book of memoirs, "Welche.
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Hilde Spiel, Vienna's Golden Autumn, 1866-1938. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 248 pages. Attractively packaged with color plates of an urn-like Secessionist vase on its front cover and a Reinhold Völkel, Café Griensteidl, 1896 painting on the back, and introduced by an unusual Table of Contents which recalls the
