Susanne Wantoch

Susanne Wantoch (born Eisenberger) was born in 1912 in Trenčín, in present-day Slovakia. From 1932, she studied English and French for a teaching career in Vienna. In 1938, she emigrated to China with her husband, where she worked as a nurse and teacher. After her husband’s death, she returned to Austria in 1947 and initially worked as an English teacher and secretary. She made her literary and journalistic debut in 1948 with the China novel “Nan Lu – Die Stadt der verschlungenen Wege,” which she had conceived in exile.