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Claire Goll
1891–1977
A poet, novelist, journalist, and translator, she moved through the artistic worlds of Munich, Zurich, Paris, and New York and turned a turbulent life into vivid writing. Her work bridges German and French literature and captures the restless spirit of 20th-century Europe.
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Der gläserne Garten: Zwei Novellen
by Claire Goll
About the author
Born in Nuremberg in 1891 as Klara Liliane Aischmann, she became known as Claire Goll and wrote in both German and French. She studied in Munich, Lausanne, Zurich, and Geneva, and published her first books in 1918, including the poetry collection Mitwelt and the novella collection Die Frauen erwachen.
In the years after World War I, she became part of the European avant-garde. She traveled to Paris with the poet Yvan Goll, whom she married in 1921, and her writing appeared across several genres, from poems and novels to journalism and translation. During World War II, the couple fled to the United States before returning to Europe after the war.
Claire Goll is remembered not only for her own wide-ranging body of work, but also for the way her life intersected with major literary figures and movements of her time. She died in Paris in 1977, leaving behind books that reflect exile, modernism, and the emotional intensity of a life lived close to art and upheaval.