Elisabeth Augustin

Later that year, she left for the Netherlands. Her husband, Paul Felix Augustin, had grown up there and she already spoke Dutch. Her own Dutch translation of her first novel was published as De uitgestootene in 1935. She had published three more novels in Dutch by 1938. In 1938, her parents left Germany to join her in the Netherlands. However, after her father died in 1942, her mother was deported to the Sobibór extermination camp where she was murdered in the gas chambers. Her later writing is strongly influenced by Judaism and the Holocaust, even though Augustin herself did not follow Jewish customs or the Jewish religion. She published the novel Labyrint (Dutch) in 1955. A German version Auswege appeared in 1988; it was to be her last novel, although she continued to produce poetry, short stories and radio plays. In 1992, she was awarded the Jacobson award for her work.

• Elisabeth Augustin: The Elisabeth Augustin reader. Transl. by Robert Lyng et al.; introd. by M.H. Würzner. Krimpen aan den IJssel, Proza Press, 1978.

Elisabeth Augustin was recorded at birth as Elli Theresia Glaser. She also worked under the name Elisabeth Augustin. The authorities additionally record the headings Elisabeth Theresia Glaser and Elli Theresia Glaser. Her recorded language was German. She married Felix Augustin.

Elisabeth Augustin is recorded as having received Georg Mackensen Literary Prize and Goethe Medal.