Alena Wagnerová (born 18 May 1936) is a Czech author and journalist writing in both Czech and German. She was born in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

and studied biology at Masaryk University. Wagnerová went on to study teaching, theatre, German and comparative literature. She taught at the Dům pionýrů in Brno, then was head of the Veterinary Faculty laboratory at the Agricultural University and later was a playwright at the Divadlo Julia Fučíka. From 1968 to 1969, she was editor of ''Studentské listy''. She went to Germany in 1969 and was married there. Wagnerová also worked on the Paměť žen (Women's Memories) project in Prague. She has written about German authors from Prague such as Franz Kafka and

Milena Jesenská Milena Jesenská (; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Early life Jesenská was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). Her family is believed to descend from Jan Jesenius, th ...

and Bohemian cultural figures such as

Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín Sidonia or Sidonie is a feminine given name which may refer to: People * Sidonie of Bavaria (1488–1505), eldest daughter of Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich, wife of the Elector Palatine Louis V * Sidonie of Poděbrady (1449–1510), daughte ...

. In both her fiction and non-fiction, she explores issues such as the status of women and Czech-German relations.

Selected works

* ''Milena Jesenská'', biography (1996), Czech * ''Die Familie Kafka aus Prag'', biography (1997), German also translated into French as ''La famille Kafka de Prague'' (2004) * ''Milena Jesenská: Biographie'', biography (1997), German also translated into Italian as ''Milena Jesenská: Una biografia'' (2004) * ''Das Leben der Sidonie Nádherný'', biography (2003), German * ''Helden der Hoffnung : die anderen Deutschen aus den Sudeten, 1935-1989'', history (2008), German * ''Sidonie Nádherná'', biography (2013), Czech * ''Bol lásky prodejné'' (2013), Czech

References

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