Ernst W. (Ernst Wolfgang) Freissler

Born on July 7, 1884, in Troppau in Austrian Silesia, Ernst Wolfgang Freissler was an Austrian-Silesian author, literary editor, and translator. Library and reference records consistently identify him as a novelist and storyteller who also worked as a lector or editor, and he published under forms of his own name as well as pseudonyms including E. W. Günter.

Freissler died on February 25, 1937, in Stadt Olbersdorf (now Město Albrechtice, in the present-day Czech Republic). Modern reference sources suggest that, although he is not widely known today, he was associated with fiction rooted in provincial and rural worlds and remained notable enough for later reprints and catalog listings.

Because readily available biographical information is fairly limited, many personal details about his life are not easy to confirm from reliable public sources. What can be said with confidence is that he belonged to the generation of German-language writers shaped by the final decades of Austria-Hungary and the unsettled years that followed.