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Marlene Johanna Norst (24 March 1930 in Vienna – 20 December 2010 in Sydney) was an Australian linguist, pedagogue and philanthropist of Austrian heritage. Main areas of work: German language and literature studies, linguistics, language pedagogy, English as a second language, socio-linguistics, children’s literature. == Early life == She was the daughter of the lawyer Dr. Anton Heinrich Norst (30 December 1900 in Czernowitz – 8 September 1974 in Sydney) and the English language scholar Dr. Mary Norst, née Widrich (6 August 1900 in Vienna – 22 September 1967 in Sydney), and grandchild of the author and journalist Dr. Anton Norst (30 April 1859 in Załuże near Zbarazh (formerly Galicia, Austria-Hungary) – 11 April 1939 in Vienna), who was a brother of Eugenie Schwarzwald. Following the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Germany) in March 1938 the Norst family fled Austria because of the threat of persecution by the Nazi regime. After a short stay from 22 May to 22 June 1938 with Anton’s sister, Else Rubinowicz (1892-1969), wife of the physicist Wojciech Rubinowicz, in Lwów/Poland the Norsts moved on to Denmark, where they stayed for a few months on the island of Thurø with the author Karin Michaëlis, a friend of Eugenie Schwarzwald. There they met Bertolt Brecht and his second wife, Helene Weigel. After that they travelled on to Canada and finally settled in Australia. Marlene’s father was employed in a cannery in Leeton as food technologist and tasked with establishing a laboratory. In Leeton Marlene went to a Catholic primary school and then became a boarder at Mt. Erin Presentation Convent in Wagga Wagga. After secondary school she studied German and Linguistics at Sydney University and later at Newcastle University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marlene Norst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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