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Else Rabe
A German writer from Munich, she is remembered today mainly for the 1927 novel Der Hafen, a story set against the energy and upheaval of modern harbor building. Though little biographical detail survives, her work still offers a glimpse of Weimar-era fiction and its interest in ambition, industry, and human lives in transition.
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Der Hafen : Roman
by Else Rabe
About the author
Else Rabe was a German writer associated with Munich. A reliable contemporary biographical clue appears in the German Wikipedia entry on writer Erich K. Schmidt, which notes that he married the Munich author Else Rabe in 1923 and gives her birthplace and birth date as Loslau, August 19, 1894.
Her best-documented surviving work is Der Hafen (The Harbor), published in 1927. Project Gutenberg describes it as a late-1920s novel centered on the building of a modern harbor, where industrial progress and personal lives become tightly intertwined.
Very little else could be confirmed from dependable sources available here, which makes her one of those authors who seem to hover at the edge of literary history. Even so, the record that remains suggests a novelist interested in social change, place, and the pressures of a rapidly modernizing world.