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Adeline zu Rantzau
1867–1927
A German novelist, storyteller, and poet from Schleswig-Holstein, she found early-20th-century success with emotionally charged fiction such as Ein unmöglicher Mensch and Der Dritte. Her work belongs to a lively moment in German popular literature, with novels that kept drawing readers long after their first publication.
1 Audiobook
Kolmas : Romaani
by Adeline zu Rantzau
About the author
Adeline zu Rantzau was a German writer born in Rastorf, Schleswig-Holstein, on June 26, 1867, and she died in Kiel on September 29, 1927. She is described in reference sources as the author of novels, stories, and poems, and she belonged to the Rantzau noble family.
She built her reputation mainly in the early 1900s. Wikipedia notes that she especially reached a wide reading public with Ein unmöglicher Mensch and Der Dritte, and bibliographic listings connect her name with a steady run of fiction across the 1900s and 1910s, including Feuer, Hans Kamp, Roland Klintens Erbe, Die Siegerin, and Ganz jemand anders.
For audiobook listeners, she is an interesting rediscovery: a once-popular German author whose books move between character study, social feeling, and dramatic relationships. Even from the surviving records alone, she comes across as a versatile literary voice with a substantial body of work.