Annie Hruschka

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Annie Hruschka (born April 22, 1867 in Graz , Styria , † July 15, 1929 in Rein , today Eisbach) was an Austrian writer.

The photo was used for my work on Annie Hruschka. The only picture of the author found so far comes from one of her books from 1906 (Weltmenschen).

Life

Annie Hruschka was the daughter of the lawyer Dr. Franz Ferdinand Krauss and Anna geb. Shoot. She was baptized in the name of Anna Antonia Maria Krauss. She has authored numerous entertainment, marriage, family, crime and newspaper novels. "As the author of widely read newspaper novels, Annie Hruschka ... became known far beyond the borders of her homeland".

At the age of 23, in 1890 in Graz, she married the Bohemian-born Imperial and Royal Professor Alois Hruschka (1852–1921), who was also active as a writer. For many years she lived with her husband in Stuttgart , Prague and Vienna . She spent the last years of her life in her home Styria, in Rein near Graz. She died of a heart defect at the age of 62 and found her final resting place in Rein.

reception

Hruschka wrote over 120 novels, including 52 detective novels resp. Novels with a criminal background. She published most of her books under the pseudonym Erich Ebenstein , but she also used two other pseudoandronyms: Hardy Langen and Niko / Nico Corona . Hruschka wrote many of her novels as serial novels for daily and weekly newspapers, for example in 'Illustrierte Roman-Welt, Die Romanzeitung für Haus und Familie'; 'In the intimate home'; in the 'Library of Entertainment and Knowledge'; in the popular entertainment paper for the Catholic family 'Alte und Neue Welt' or in 'Berliner Hausfrau'. Interestingly, these also appeared abroad. Almost all of her works were later published in book form.

Annie Hruschka created Silas Hempel (alongside Auguste Groner with her Joseph Müller), the first famous private detective in German-language literature. That Silas Hempel is almost forgotten today remains an unjust fate.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Lost souls . 1899
  • Queen love . 1904
  • Dreamland . 1909
  • Man's demon . 1917
  • Whose picture do you have in your heart ...? . 1919
  • World people. Novel . 1906
  • The princess of Lanka. Novel . 1910
  • Love's ever changing song. Novel . 1923
  • Winding paths of life. Novel . 1924

Detective novels

  • The limping one . 1906
  • The pastor of Gamsegg . 1907
  • The lonely castle . 1913
  • The great inheritance . 1921
  • Cain and Abel. Novel . 1924
  • Over the ocean. Detective novel . 1915
  • The secret of the Brintnerhof. Detective novel . 1924 (1914/15 as a serial in the "Deutsche Hausschatz" , 41st year nos. 1-12; in Dutch 1920)
  • The silver car. Detective novel . 1910
  • The death of the Koronsky family. Detective novel . 1933
  • Three fingerprints. Detective novel . 1921
  • The missing will. Detective novel . 1918
  • The stranger in the chapel. Detective novel . 1927
  • The dead one from Brazil. Detective novel . 1926/1927
  • The gray man. Detective novel . 1910
  • The mysterious hunchback. Detective novel . 1911
  • Shots in the night. Detective novel . 1914
  • The enemy from the dark. Detective novel . 1925
  • The secret of the seamstress. Detective novel . 1929
  • The beautiful American. Detective novel . 1910

literature

  • Hruschka Annie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 441.
  • Works by Annie Hruschka in the Gutenberg-DE project
  • Armin Arnold (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 201.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Catholic Germany. Biographical-Bibliographical Lexicon, Vol. 1 . Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1933/37.
  • Johann Willibald Nagl, Jakob Zeidler, Eduard Castle. German-Austrian Literary History: A Handbook on the History of German Poetry in Austria-Hungary. 4th volume, Vienna, 1937 (pages 1234 and 1505).
  • Franz Reigel: Annie Hruschka - Erich Ebenstein. Review of works, novels, detective novels, biography, epubli GmbH, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86931-762-5 ; Zumsteg Druck Frick 2012, 2nd expanded edition. (Author of the photography).

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personal data
SURNAME Hruschka, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, Annie (maiden name); Ebenstein, Erich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1929
Place of death Purely