Background
Her father died in World War I and she was taken to an orphanage.
Her father died in World War I and she was taken to an orphanage.
She learnt schoolteaching in Innsbruck, where she started publishing her poems in the magazine Tiroler Volksboten, and she was also one of the founders of the literacy association Turmbund. She died in 1972, and her tomb is in a cemetery of Mühlau, Innsbruck. 1950: Grand Austrian State Prize (Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis ) for Appassionata Hg.