Clara Viebig

Petra Watzke (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Ed. by Jill E. Twark, East Carolina University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 17 Jul 1860
Died 31 Jul 1952
Activity 1896-1935

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Viebig's Works

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Clara Viebig (1860-1952) is a German author who wrote novels, stories, and some plays in the style of Naturalism. In her own time, especially in the first two decades of the twentieth century, she was both nationally and internationally successful and her works were praised by critics and fellow writers alike. Today, however, she occupies only a marginal position in German literature.

Born in Trier in the Eifel region of Germany, she also spent time in Düsseldorf and the Rhineland, in the Province of Posen (now part of Poland), and in Berlin. In her works she presents characters of these four distinct German regions as strongly influenced by their social class, gender, sexual drives, historical circumstances, and unique natural surroundings. She primarily represents the lives of

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Citation: Watzke, Petra . "Clara Viebig". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 March 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13411, accessed 27 November 2024.]