Helene Migerka (13 September 1867,
Brno
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– 26 March 1928,
Graz
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) was an Austrian
poet
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and
novelist
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.
She was a daughter of the Austrian feminist and writer
Katharina Kämpffat (1844,
Tilsit
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– 1922) and museologist
Franz Migerka (1828–1915).
Her cousin was
Otto Neurath
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.
She committed suicide in 1928.
Literary works
* ''Gedichte'', 1889
* ''Neue Gedichte'', 1895
* ''Das Glück der Häßlichen und andere Skizzen und Satiren'', 1913
* ''Der neue Besen'', 1920
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1867 births
1928 deaths
Writers from Brno
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
19th-century Austrian novelists
20th-century Austrian novelists
19th-century Austrian women writers
20th-century Austrian women writers
Austrian feminists
Austrian women novelists
Moravian-German people
Austrian people of Moravian-German descent
1928 suicides
Suicides in Austria
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