Maria Scholz was a daughter of Joseph Stonawski, who bought the Castle Strebowitz in 1861, and his wife Marie Prymus from Soběšovice in Cieszyn Silesia.

Maria Stona most likely had a second marriage to the writer, editor and art critic Charles Erasmus Kleinert (1837–1933).

She actively participated in the cultural life of the town – she visited exhibits and the theatre, but mainly she supported artists.

She encouraged young artists who belonged to which the Czech pianist and composer Ilja Hurník and others traveled for Eastern Europe, Southern France and Spain[clarification needed].

Her extensive literary heritage, included travelogues, poetry, often sentimental, short stories, novellas and novels.

They drew their psychological empathy from the surrounding world, as Russian troops had occupied Moravia and Silesia in 1945 and Castle Strebowitz was lost as a family residence.