author
Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem
1854–1941
A popular German novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem filled her stories with aristocratic society, romance, intrigue, and touches of the uncanny. Her wide-ranging career also included a bestselling guide to good manners and social conduct.
3 Audiobooks
Die Falkner vom Falkenhof. Zweiter Band.
by Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem
Die Falkner vom Falkenhof. Erster Band.
by Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem
Kreivitär Käthe naimisissa
by Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem
About the author
Born in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, in 1854, Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem grew up in an aristocratic family and received singing lessons from the Dresden soprano Jenny Bürde-Ney. She began publishing in the 1870s and became one of the era’s best-known German writers of popular fiction, working under her own name rather than a pseudonym.
She married the cavalry officer Joseph Fritz von Adlersfeld in 1884 and lived in several German garrison towns before eventually settling in Munich. Her novels and stories often portray a strongly hierarchical world of old-fashioned aristocratic values, while her 1892 guide to etiquette, later known as Der gute Ton und die feine Sitte, went through numerous editions. She died in 1941.