author
Gabriele Reuter
1859–1941
Best known for a once-scandalous 1895 novel about the pressures placed on young women, this German writer was widely read in her own time and is now being rediscovered. Her fiction is remembered for its sharp psychological insight and its clear-eyed view of middle-class life.
2 Audiobooks
Was Helmut in Deutschland erlebte: Eine Jugendgeschichte
by Gabriele Reuter
Ins neue Land
by Gabriele Reuter
About the author
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1859, Gabriele Reuter grew up between Egypt and Germany before her family returned to Germany after her father's death. She went on to become a successful German writer at the turn of the 20th century, though her name later faded from wider view.
Reuter is best known for Aus guter Familie (From a Good Family, 1895), a novel that follows a young woman trapped by the expectations of respectable society. The book brought her major attention and helped establish her reputation for writing with unusual psychological depth about the inner lives of women.
During her lifetime she published widely and was read by a large audience. Today, she is often remembered as an important voice on the limits placed on women in Wilhelmine-era society, and as a writer whose work captured both private feeling and social pressure with remarkable clarity.