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Grethe Auer
1871–1940
A Swiss-Austrian writer whose years in Morocco gave her fiction a vivid sense of place, she wrote stories and novels that moved between European and North African settings. Her work includes collections such as Marokkanische Erzählungen and the historical novel Ibn Chaldun.
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Gabrielens Spitzen: Zwei Novellen
by Grethe Auer
About the author
Born in Vienna on June 25, 1871, Grethe Auer was a Swiss-Austrian writer, also known after her marriage as Grethe Güterbock. She studied in Bern from 1888 and formed lasting friendships with Swiss literary figures including Otto von Greyerz and Rudolf von Tavel.
From 1898 to 1904, she lived in Morocco in her brother’s household, an experience that strongly shaped her writing. Those years inspired works including Marokkanische Erzählungen (1904), and later she published the historical novel Ibn Chaldun (1925).
Auer died in Berlin on July 16, 1940. Though not widely known today, she stands out for bringing Moroccan settings and themes into early 20th-century German-language literature in a way that grew directly from lived experience.