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Claire Goll
1891–1977
A German-French writer and journalist shaped by exile, war, and the literary avant-garde, she wrote poetry, fiction, memoir, and translations that drew on a dramatic life. Her story is also closely tied to major 20th-century figures including Yvan Goll and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Der gläserne Garten: Zwei Novellen
by Claire Goll
About the author
Born as Clara Aischmann in Nuremberg, Claire Goll became a German-French writer and journalist whose work ranged across poetry, novels, memoir, and translation. She lived in Germany, Switzerland, France, and later the United States during World War II, and her writing was deeply marked by displacement, political upheaval, and the artistic circles around her.
She was part of the French avant-garde with her husband, the poet Yvan Goll, and built a prolific career of her own. Biographical sources describe her as active in peace and women's movements in Switzerland during World War I, and later as a writer whose life and books were shaped by both personal tragedy and literary controversy.
Today she is remembered not only for her poems and prose, but also for autobiographical works that offer a vivid window into 20th-century European literary life. Some sources list her birth year as 1890 rather than 1891, so that detail is recorded differently in reference works.