5/21/2023 0 Comments The reluctant heiress eva ibbotsonIn 1934 Eva left Vienna and joined her mother and stepfather who had settled in Belzide Park, England. Her mother met and married Russian philosopher Jascha Morduch while residing in Paris. In 1933 her mother moved to Paris after Hitler banned her writing work while Eva was sent to her grandparents in Vienna. Her parents seperated in 1928 and three-year old Eva followed her mother to Berlin.Ī very cosmopolitan, sophisticated and quite interesting, but also very unhappy childhood, always on some train and wishing to have a home Eva’s recalling of her childhood years The family relocated to Scotland in 1926 after Eva’s father accepted a post at the University of Edinburgh. Her mother, Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner, was a successful novelist and playwright, who had worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht and written film scripts for director Georg Pabst. Her father, Dr Bertold Paul Wiesner, was a pioneering physician in human infertility treatment (he is believed to have sired 600 of the children his clinic helped to be born). Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson ( née Wiesner), commonly known as Eva Ibbotson, was born on 21 January 1925 in Vienna to Jewish parents who didn’t practice their religion.
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