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"In the foreword to the volume of stories from dark loves published in 1931, which collects the posthumous works of Gutti Alsen, the editor Martin A. Borrmann characterizes the author he respected: She was an artist through and through, an artist in form and substance, a longing, which combined northern austerity and clarity with southern oriental colorfulness and confusion. Borrmann recalls the literary afternoons organized by the author in Königsberg i. Pr. (Russian: Kaliningrad) and suggests that Als was one of the city's most important personalities. Despite this assessment Gutti, actually Gustave, Alsen is completely forgotten today, and only the contours of her life are recognizable. She was born in Königsberg on September 4, 1869, and died there on May 24, 1929, into a respected Jewish merchant family. Her brothers were the physician Willy Aschkanasy and the lawyer David Aschkanasy, at the time the best-known criminal defense attorney in East Prussia."

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 19 2022, 21:54:39 UTC