| Born: | 08-24-1915 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Marianne REISS (married: GOLDNER), born on August 24th, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Siegmund Reiss (merchant, 1880-1942) and Anna Johanna Reiss, née Stejskal (1877-?), lived in Vienna's 17th district, Braungasse 5, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 4th and last year of her studies and took courses in chemistry.
Under National Socialism, after the Anschluss, she was forced to abandon her studies for racist reasons, after she had initially been exceptionally admitted for the spring term of 1938 to continue her studies until the end of the term within the framework of the "2% numerus clausus for Jewish students". She was forced to leave the University of Vienna without a degree.
She had previously married the musician (violist) and inventor Richard Goldner (1908-1991) in Vienna Mariahilf on July 31st, 1938 - at the same time her older sister Irma Reiss (1912-1996) married his older brother, the merchant Gerhard Goldner (1905-?).
Her sister Irma Reiss-Goldner was also forced to leave the University of Vienna in 1938 for racist reasons, but was able to complete her medical studies at the end of October 1938, at least under a discriminatory "non-Aryan graduation" ("Nichtarierpromotion") and with a simultaneous professional ban in the entire German Reich.
They had to flee Vienna but the sisters Marianne and Irma Reiss-Goldner and their husbands did not manage to find an exit route to Australia until early 1939 and they arrived with the SS Orama in Sydney, NSW, Australia on March 23rd, 1939. Later, her sisters Alice Schreiner, née Reiss (1913-?) and Margarethe Sinai, née Reiss (1915-1982), as well as her parents-in-law, also managed to emigrate to Australia.
Marianne's father was unable to escape in time and was deported from Vienna's 6th district, Ägidigasse 5, to German-occupied Riga, Latvia, on January 11th, 1942, where he was murdered.
Without a degree, Marianne Goldner was unable to find work, and her husband, a musician, was initially unable to find sufficient employment in his profession. Together with his brother Ger(h)ard, they started a production of leather accessories and costume jewelry, as originally stated in the entry application, and were soon quite successful in it. Soon after Australia's entry into the war, her husband, the amateur inventor Richard Goldner, who was actually building up the Musica Viva project in Australia in the field of chamber music, became active as a professional inventor at the suggestion of military circles and designed, among other things, a "field-ready" zipper for the army, the mass production of which secured an upper income for the two Goldner families and they became Australian citizens in 1944.
Marianne Goldner died in Mosman, NSW/Australia in 1969.
Lit.: Archives of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; Austrian State Archives OeStA/AdR/E-uReang/VVSt/VA/26516; National Archives of Australia NAA/A12508, 21/1560, NAA/A12508, 21/1560, NAA/A261, 1939/747, NAA/A261, 1946/1720; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 456; POSCH 2009, 371; Michael LUNARDI, Richard Goldner, in: Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit, Hamburg, 2009; www.ancestry.de; www.genteam.at; www.myheritage.at; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 04/2020.
Herbert Posch
