Dorothea Zeemann (1909–1993)

Dorothea Zeemann was born in Vienna, Austria and grew up in poverty. She trained as a nurse, and in 1929 married Rudolf Holzinger, a painter. After World War II, she became a freelance journalist and novelist. She was a longtime lover of Nazi writer Franz Carl Heimito, known as Heimito von Doderer. She served as as secretary general of the Austrian PEN Club.