Background
The daughter of an Irish father and an Austrian mother, she started a career in journalism already in her youth. In Vienna, she worked as a texter in the news agency APA, where her mother had also worked.
The daughter of an Irish father and an Austrian mother, she started a career in journalism already in her youth. In Vienna, she worked as a texter in the news agency APA, where her mother had also worked.
Her major works are Bibi Blocksberg and Benjamin Blümchen. Donnelly spent her early childhood in Rugby in the English Midlands, and moved to Vienna in her later childhood. In 1973 she moved to Berlin, married Peter Lustig (Löwenzahn/ZDF) and started writing Hörspiele (audio dramas) for children.
In the 1980s, she became a disciple of Indian mystic Osho.
Donnelly"s two grown-up sons live in Austria and America.
