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Terese Robinson
1873–1945
A German writer and translator whose life stretched from imperial Germany to exile in Sweden, she is remembered for bringing major European literature into German and for her own fiction. Her story carries the feel of a literary life shaped by languages, upheaval, and persistence.
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Gespräche im Zwielicht
by Terese Robinson
About the author
Born Therese Langenbach in Darmstadt in 1873, she became known as Terese Robinson, a German writer and translator. Reliable catalog and reference sources agree on her life dates, and note that she died in Malmö in 1945.
She worked both as a novelist and as a translator. Sources connected with her bibliography and scholarship link her in particular with German translations of writers such as Charles Baudelaire, William Shakespeare, and Paul Verlaine, showing the breadth of her literary interests.
Her life also reflects the pressures of 20th-century Europe: archival and reference records indicate that she emigrated from Germany during the Nazi era. Even in a brief author sketch, that combination of creative writing, translation, and exile gives her work a distinctive historical weight.