Gabriela Rothmayerová

Gabriela Rothmayerová (born 14 March 1951) is a Slovak journalist, writer and politician. From 1990 to 1994 she served as a Member of the National Council.

Biography Gabriela Rothmayerová was born on 14 March 1951 in Gelnica to a mining family as the sixth of seven children. After graduating from a local high school in 1969, she started working in the East Slovak Ironworks and writing for a local newspaper. From 1970 to 1975 she studied journalism at the Comenius University.

Following her graduation from the university, Rothmayerová worked as a journalist for the daily Smena. She was also the editor of the youth magazine Ohník.

Rothmayerová debuted as a writer in 1982 with a collection of short stories Lastovičie hniezdo. In 1992 she published a series of her reflections of her political career Zo zápisnika poslankyne. In the 2000s, she published three novels reflecting the social situation in Slovakia at the time. In the late 2010s, she started working on a biography of the last prime minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic Peter Colotka.

Personal life Rothmayerová is married to the journalist Emil Polák. They have one son.