Rezension: "Der Brief aus dem Jenseits. Kriminalnovellen" von Auguste Groner

Abstract

With accurate language and an eye for detail the four crime novellas by the now almost forgotten Viennese author Auguste Groner (1850-1929) take modern readers back to the city of Vienna at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. In the fast paced time of the so-called ‚Ringstraßenzeit‘, the protagonists – often outcasts or outsiders – find themselves in the midst of social abysses, dealing with questions of guilt, responsibility and justice. Whilst meticulously writing about extraordinary crimes the author also paints the picture of a time that is long gone, but whose problems have not lost their relevance to this day.