Deutsche Humoristen, 7. Band (von 8)

Anna Croissant-Rust

1860–1943

A sharp-eyed German writer of the naturalist movement, she brought working lives and everyday pressures into fiction with unusual clarity. Her stories later widened in mood and style, showing a writer who kept changing over a long career.

Rudolf Greinz

1866–1942

Known for vivid Tyrolean stories and historical novels, this Austrian writer drew on local life, folklore, and religion to create books that were widely read in the German-speaking world. He also wrote satirical pieces under the pen name Kassian Kluibenschädel.

Wilhelm Schussen

1874–1956

A schoolteacher turned novelist and poet, he wrote with a warm, often humorous eye for Swabian life. His career stretched from classroom work into decades of fiction, essays, and literary activity in southern Germany.

Ludwig Thoma

1867–1921

Best known for sharp, funny portraits of Bavarian life, this German writer mixed earthy humor with social satire in stories and plays that stayed widely read long after his lifetime. His work can feel warm and local one moment, then biting and critical the next.