author
Auguste Hauschner
1850–1924
A sharp, socially engaged voice from Prague and Berlin, her fiction and essays explored the pressures of modern life, identity, and belonging. She wrote with clarity and independence, and is remembered as an important figure among German-language writers connected with Prague.
1 Audiobook
Nachtgespräche
by Auguste Hauschner
About the author
Born in Prague in 1850 as Auguste Sobotka, she later lived in Berlin and published as Auguste Hauschner, sometimes using the pen name Auguste Montag. She is generally described as a German writer and an important representative of German-speaking authors from Prague.
Her work is known for its social criticism. Across novels, novellas, and essays, she returned to questions of society, culture, and the position of individuals within changing urban life.
Hauschner came from a Jewish family background, a fact often noted in biographical sources, and her life between Prague and Berlin placed her at the crossroads of several cultural worlds. She died in Berlin in 1924, leaving behind a body of work that still draws interest for its thoughtful, critical view of her time.