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Juliane Déry
1864–1899
A German-language writer whose life moved from Hungary to Vienna, Paris, Munich, and Berlin, she wrote poems, stories, and plays with a style that shifted from realism toward symbolism. Though she died young, her work found readers and theater audiences in the late nineteenth century.
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Katastrophen: Neue Novellen
by Juliane Déry
About the author
Born in Baja in 1864, she grew up in a family of Jewish background and moved with her family to Vienna in 1873, where they converted to Catholicism. She studied at the St. Anna teachers' institute, but writing soon became central to her life.
From the late 1880s on, she published stories and stage works in German, and her plays were performed in cities including Coburg, Munich, and Berlin. Sources also note that she spent time in Paris and became associated with literary and artistic circles, while her writing developed from more realistic work toward symbolist themes.
She died in Berlin in 1899, still in her thirties. Even with such a short life, she left behind a body of poetry, fiction, and drama that keeps her name present in histories of fin-de-siècle Central European literature.