author
Max Kretzer
1854–1941
Known for vivid social realist fiction, this German writer drew on his own years of factory work to portray the lives of ordinary people with unusual firsthand detail. He became a prolific novelist whose stories focused on Berlin’s working class and the pressures of modern industrial life.
3 Audiobooks
Aatetoverit : Sosiaalinen romaani
by Max Kretzer
Vuorisaarna: Romaani nykyajalta
by Max Kretzer
Familiensklaven : Roman
by Max Kretzer
About the author
Born in Posen on June 7, 1854, he moved with his family to Berlin after they fell into poverty. He had to leave school at thirteen and spent about twelve years working in a factory, an experience that later shaped the world of his fiction.
He went on to become a productive and successful German novelist, especially associated with social realism. His books are known for their close attention to working people and to the harsh conditions of Berlin's industrial proletariat in the late nineteenth century.
Max Kretzer died in Berlin on July 15, 1941. Today he is remembered for bringing everyday labor, class struggle, and urban life into German literature with a directness that came from lived experience.