Auguste Groner
Auguste Groner, was an Austrian writer internationally notable for detective fiction. She also published under the pseudonyms Olaf Björnson, A. of the Paura, Renorga, and Metis.
Life
Auguste Groner was born in Vienna in 1850, the daughter of an accountant. One of her brothers was the painter Franz Kopallik, and another was the theologian Josef Kopallik. She was educated in Vienna, both at the painting school at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and at the Vienna woman's teacher training institute. From 1876 to 1905 she worked as a primary school teacher in Vienna. In 1879 she married Richard Groner, a journalist and lexicographer. Around 1882 she began writing, initially juvenile fiction and historical fiction. Around 1890, she turned to crime fiction, creating the first serial police detective in German crime literature, Joseph Müller, who appears for the first time in the novella The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow, which was published in 1890. Outside of Austria, she is most known for her crime stories.Selected works
- Joseph Müller novels and stories:
- *The Secret of New Year's Eve 1890,
- *The Golden Bullet 1892,
- *Who is it? 1894
- *How I Was Murdered 1895,
- *The Confessional Secret 1897
- *The old gentleman 1898
- *Why she extinguished the light 1899,
- *The Pharaoh's Bracelet 1900
- *The House in the Shadow 1902
- *The Blue Lady 1905,
- *Lush Grass 1905
- *The man with the many names 1906
- *The Black Cord 1908,
- *The Red Mercury 1910
- *The Cross of the Welser 1912
- *The Secret of the Hermitage 1916
- *The Pentagram 1916
- *The Wandering Light 1922