Background
The daughter of Eduard Joseph Glaser, a Roman Catholic, and Ella Cohn, a Jew, she was born Elisabeth Theresia Glaser in Friedenau, a suburb of Berlin, and grew up in Leipzig and Berlin.
The daughter of Eduard Joseph Glaser, a Roman Catholic, and Ella Cohn, a Jew, she was born Elisabeth Theresia Glaser in Friedenau, a suburb of Berlin, and grew up in Leipzig and Berlin.
In 1933, she completed her first novel Der Ausgestoßene (The outcast). lieutenant was accepted for publication but was not released due to the political environment in Germany at the time.
By the age of 20, she was writing poetry and short stories that were published in local newspapers. 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. However, after her father died in 1942, her mother was deported to the Sobibór extermination camp where she died in the gas chambers.
She published the novel Labyrint (Dutch) in 1955. A German version Auswege appeared in 1988.
lieutenant 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. She died in Amsterdam in 2001.