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The writer born in Alexandria (1859-1941) lived in Weimar and Munich, where she joined the Verein für geistige Interessen der Frau in 1896 and served on the board until 1898. She was one of the most popular female authors of her time and was considered a "poet of the female soul" because of her fine psychologisation. Her widely read novel "Aus guter Familie" (1895) depicts the tale of the suffering of a higher daughter of the Wilhelminian era, who failed in the typical middle-class concept of the woman as a "virgin, wife and mother". Gabriele Reuter also wrote best sellers such as the novels "Der Amerikaner" (The American – 1907) or "Das Tränenhaus" (1908, cf. 38.1110). The single mother of a daughter worked as a reviewer for the New York Times. Gabriele Reuter finished her novel "Die Herrin" in 1918: a young, educated woman stands opposite her great-mother-in-law, an old tyrant, who exercises her rule over the manor into which the young woman has married in the most brutal way. In this novel, Reuter pursues "the problem of old age that does not want to age and wears generations down due to its greed for power and tyranny in every single smallest and finest vein." (Anselm Salzer). Datum: 2019
Author
Peter Czoik