Anna Maria Achenrainer (5 July 1909 – 14 January 1972) was an Austrian writer.
Life
Achenrainer was born in
Pfunds. Her father died in World War I and she was taken to an orphanage.
Achenrainer learnt teaching in
Innsbruck, where she started publishing her poems in the magazine Tiroler Volksboten, and she was also one of the founders of the literacy association
Turmbund.
Achenrainer died in Innsbruck on 14 January 1972, and her tomb is in a cemetery of
Mühlau, Innsbruck.[1]
Elisabeth Pfurtscheller: Anna Maria Achenrainer (1909 - 1972). Die Stellung der Lyrikerin im Tiroler Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb der 50er und 60er Jahre, dargestellt anhand ihres Nachlasses. Universität Innsbruck, 2006
Paul Wimmer: Wegweiser durch die Literatur Tirols seit 1945. Bläschke, Darmstadt, 1978 Seite 22ff.