Alma Johanna Koenig (born on 18 August 1887 in Prague, Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian writer with Galician-Jewish roots. She published her first poems under the pseudonym Johannes Herdan. In 1921 she married the consul Bernhard Ehrenfels. Her debut novel Der heilige Palast (1922), known for its erotic subject matter, established her literary success. Her Viking novel Die Geschichte von Half, dem Weibe (1924) won the City of Vienna Prize in 1925. From 1925, she lived with her husband in Algeria, where she wrote the socially critical novel Passion in Algiers (1932). After separating in 1930 and later divorcing in 1936, she returned to Vienna, where Oskar Jan Tauschinski became her new partner. After the ‘annexation’ of Austria in 1938, she was persecuted as a Jew, expelled from her flat in Vienna's Pfeilgasse and forced to relocate several times. On 22 May 1942, she was taken by the National Socialists from her quarters in Rögergasse to a collection camp and deported from Vienna on 27 May 1942. On 1 June 1942, she was murdered in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp near Minsk.