Auguste Groner

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Auguste Groner

Auguste Groner (born April 16, 1850 in Vienna ; † March 7, 1929 there , born Auguste Kopallik ) was an Austrian writer. She also published under the pseudonyms Olaf Björnson, A. von der Paura, Renorga and Metis.

Life

Auguste Groner was born in Vienna in 1850 as the daughter of a government official. The church historian Joseph Kopallik and the painter Franz Kopallik were her brothers. From 1876 to 1905 she worked as a primary school teacher. In 1879 she married the journalist Richard Groner . She started writing around 1882. First, the productive and versatile feature writer wrote riddle poems, youth and historical homeland stories. She was honored for her work in 1893 by the literary department of the World's Fair in Chicago . Since 1890, numerous crime stories and novels have been published, some of which have been translated into Scandinavian and English. Groner invented the first series detective in German-language literature, Joseph Müller, who first appeared in the short story Die goldene Kugel , which was first published in 1892. In 1894 she founded the Austrian Youth Newspaper (supplement to the Wiener Abendblatt ) and the Austrian Youth Library .

Tomb at Hietzingen cemetery

Auguste Groner died in Vienna in 1929 and was buried in an honorary grave in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 4, number 88).

The Golden Auguste is named after Auguste Groner , a prize for contributions to women's crime fiction.

Works (selection)

  • Joseph Müller novels and short stories:
    • The secret of New Year's Eve (novella) 1890
    • The golden ball (novella) 1892
    • Who is it? (Novella) 1894
    • How I Was Murdered (novella) 1895
    • The confessional secret (novella) 1897
    • The old man (novella) 1898
    • Why she put out the light (novel) 1899
    • The pharaoh's bracelet (novel) 1900
    • The House in the Shadow (novella) 1902
    • The Blue Lady (novel) 1905
    • Lush Grass (narrative) 1905
    • The Man with Many Names (novel) 1906
    • Department store Groß & Comp. (Novel) 1907
    • The black cord (novel) 1908
    • Red Mercury (novel) 1910
    • The cross of the Welser (novel) 1912
    • The Secret of the Hermitage (novel) 1916
    • Der Drudenfuß (novella) 1916
    • The Wandering Light (novel) 1922

Book editions

  • The letter from beyond. Kriminalnovellen , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1985
  • Joseph Müller, detective. Criminal stories , Verlag Lindenstruth, Giessen 2002 ISBN 3-934273-30-0
  • The invisible. Unheimliche Erzählungen , Verlag Lindenstruth, Gießen 2004 ISBN 3-934273-33-5
  • The Pharaoh's bracelet , Verlag Lindenstruth, Giessen 2011 ISBN 978-3-934273-32-0
  • Der Rote Merkur (edited and edited by Traude Korosa with a foreword by Edith Kneifl), Edition Mokka, Vienna 2011 ISBN 978-3-902693-25-9
  • Department store Groß & Comp. , tredition, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8472-7192-5
  • The house in the shade. A Joseph Müller detective novel , Verlag Lindenstruth, Gießen 2013 ISBN 978-3-934273-34-4

literature

Web links

Commons : Auguste Groner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Winkler:  Professor Franz Kopallik. Words of remembrance. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , February 1, 1931, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj
  2. ↑ Augustine Groner in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
personal data
SURNAME Groner, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kopollik, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1929
Place of death Vienna