persons Waln, Nora

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Name Waln, Nora
Alternative Names
ID 496
Gender female
Lifespan 1895-06-04 - 1964-09-27
Professions journalist (Q1930187), memoirist (Q11774156), non-fiction writer (Q15980158)
Collection(s)
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  • Transatlantic Networks
  • webclient
  • Uri(s) https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_156
    Notes After a dozen years in China, Waln and her husband, George Edward Osland-Hill, relocated to Germany in 1934 where Waln noted increasing tensions and Anti-Semitic sentiments among the population. She describes these experiences in her book "Reaching for the Stars" (1939) (see Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, pp. 218).

    Relations

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    1922 married to Osland-Hill, George Edward
    1936 acquainted with Kabasta, Oswald
    acquainted with Walter, Bruno

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1936 1937 related >> visited Austria
    1936-11 1937-06 related >> lived at Jacquingasse, 1030 Vienna
    1920 1932 related >> lived in China
    1934 related >> moved to Germany
    1937 related >> stayed in Dresden
    1936 1936-11 related >> stayed in Salzburg

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    1939 related >> wrote >> author of Reaching for the Stars
    1933 related >> wrote >> author of House of Exile

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