biography
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Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie, Freifrau (Baroness) von
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née Dubsky
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pronunciation:
[epnair eshenbakh]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1830–1916)
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| biography:
| Writer, born into a noble Czech family in the palace of Zdislawitz, Moravia. In contact with Laube, Hebbel, and Grillparzer, and under the influence of Turgenev, she began to write realistic fiction and is today considered the leading German female narrative writer of the 19th-c. Employing psychological penetration tempered with sympathy and subtle humour, she portrayed scenes from Vienna's high society and the simple life in the villages. Her most famous ‘Erzählungen’ are Lotti, die Uhrmacherin and Krambambuli, which appear in the collected Neue Erzählungen (1881) and Dorf- und Schloßgeschichten (1883). Other works include Boz/haena (1876), Das Gemeindekind (1887), Glaubenslos? (1893), and Aus Spätherbsttagen (1901). |
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