Grethe Auer

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Grethe Auer before 1910

Grethe Auer , married Grethe Güterbock , (born June 25, 1871 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 16, 1940 in Berlin ) was a Swiss - Austrian writer .

Life

Grethe Auer was born in Vienna as one of five children of the Swiss architect Hans Wilhelm Auer (1847–1906) and the Viennese Marie Elise Henking. In 1888 she moved to Bern , where she studied philosophy and literature and graduated with a doctorate . From 1898 to 1903 Auer stayed in Morocco with her brother, who she ran the household. She published collected stories from these years in several volumes of short stories as well as in Swiss newspapers such as the Bund and the Strasbourg Post . In 1905 she returned to Bern and went to Berlin as a teacher the following year.

In 1907 she met the private scholar and art historian Bruno Güterbock (1858–1940) in Berlin , whom she married in the same year. The marriage had two sons, the later Hittite scientist Hans Gustav Güterbock (1908–2000) and Bruno, called “Bärle”, Güterbock (1911–1951). The couple settled in Berlin, where Auer died on July 16, 1940.

In addition to dealing with Arab culture, her works also include historical novels.

Works

  • Moroccan stories. Francke, Bern 1904. ( digitized version )
  • Moroccan moral images. Francke, Bern 1905. ( digitized version )
  • Djemjid. Episode in three acts using an old Iranian legend. Francke, Bern 1905.
  • Fragments from the memoirs of the Chevalier of Roquesant. Edited and arranged by Grethe Auer. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1907. New digital edition Antigonos, Paderborn 2013. ( digitized version )
  • Marrakech. German Poet Memorial Foundation, Hamburg 1910.
  • Gabrielen's tips. Two stories. Fleischel, Berlin 1919 ( digitized version of the 1926 edition )
  • The dying people. 1921. ( Jilali published in advance in Reclam's universe )
  • Jilali. Story of an arab. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Berlin 1922.
  • King Akhenaten in El-Amarna. 16 pictures by Clara Siemens, text by Grethe Auer. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1922.
  • The soul of Imperia. A transformation. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Berlin 1923.
  • Ibn Khaldun. A Berber story from the Almohad period. Novella. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Berlin 1925.
  • Suite in major. Four stories. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Berlin 1928.
  • Bonvouloir. A novel from the Vendée Wars. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Berlin 1929.
  • The dwarf Miranda. Narrative. Bern, Francke 1934.

literature

  • Grethe Auer: When I look at my life ... Vienna - Bern - Morocco - Berlin . Memories, published on behalf of Hans Gustav Güterbock. by Herzeleide Henning. Berlin: Stapp, 1995.
  • Auer, Grethe . In: Petra Budke , Jutta Schulze (Hrsg.): Writers in Berlin from 1871 to 1945. An encyclopedia on life and work . Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 30-31.
  • Franz Brümmer : Güterbock, Grete . In: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . tape 3 . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 15-16 ( archive.org ).
  • Güterbock, Grete . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 110.
  • Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Auer, Grethe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Wikisource: Grethe Auer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Auer, Grethe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Güterbock, Grethe (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1940
Place of death Berlin