author
Sara Hutzler
1853–1893
Best remembered for stories for children and young readers, this German-American writer led a remarkably eventful life between St. Louis and Berlin. Her fiction grew out of the literary world of the late 19th century and still offers a glimpse of youthful feeling, family life, and social expectations of the time.
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Junge Herzen: Erzählungen für die reifere Jugend
by Sara Hutzler
About the author
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1853, Sara Hutzler became known as a German-American writer, especially for children’s and youth stories. Reference works and library records consistently connect her with German-language fiction for younger readers, including Junge Herzen.
Biographical sources describe a life shaped by frequent change. She was widowed young, later remarried, and moved to Berlin in 1878 with her children. In Berlin she became part of literary and theatrical circles, and she is also associated with the actor Josef Kainz, whom she married in 1886.
Hutzler died in Berlin in 1893 at only 40 years old. Though not widely known today, she remains an interesting figure for readers curious about 19th-century women writers, German-American literary history, and the emotional worlds imagined for young readers of her era.