Maria Leitner

Maria Leitner (19 January 1892 – 14 March 1942) was a Hungarian writer and journalist in the German language.

She was born, the eldest of her parents' three recorded children, on 19 January 1892 in Varaždin, Austria-Hungary, today in Croatia.

[2] She then studied art history in Vienna and Berlin, completing an internship in Paul Cassirer's Berlin gallery which resulted in a translation into German of William Hogarth's "Aufzeichnungen" (loosely: "notes") From 1913, she worked for the newspaper Az Est ("Evening").

Her work was thus connected with the literary current of the Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity"), in vogue in the Weimar Republic.

In July 1940, she wrote to Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, the most famous of the founding signatories of the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom.