Partner Yvonne Kapp
Margaret Mynatt (1907-1977) was born in Vienna, in 1907, the daughter of a British musician, John Charles Mynatt (who was known professionally as Giovanni Carlo Minotti). She moved to Berlin in 1929 and joined the Communist Party. She was also involved with Bertolt Brecht and his circle, assisting in the creation of St Joan of the Stockyards and other plays. Mynatt left Germany in 1933, following the Reichstag fire, and settled in London. She was Head of Tribunals for the Czech Refugee Trust Fund, 1938-1941, and was dismissed (with Yvonne Kapp) by the Foreign Office in 1941: they subsequently published the pamphlet British Policy and the Refugees. Mynatt was Head of Reuters Soviet Monitor (1951-1951), Manager of Central Books (1951-1966), and a director at the publishers Lawrence and Wishart (1966-1977). At the time of her death in February 1977, she was editor-in-chief of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels.
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