Gabriele Tergit

German-born British writer and journalist who became known primarily for her court reports, and as a writer, for her 1932 novel Käsebier conquers the Kurfürstendamm (Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm; in translation published under the title Käsebier Takes Berlin). Tergit served as secretary of the PEN-Center of German-language Authors Abroad. Tergit was the mother of mathematician Ernst Robert Reifenberg.

Her début novel, Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm, made her famous. Due to her critical assessment of processes involving Nazis, a horde of SA-men tried to force their way into her apartment in March 1933. She then flew to Spindlermühle, and later moved to Palestine. From 1938, she lived in London. She had already started her historical novel Effingers which deals with several generations of a German-Jewish family and which is sometimes dubbed the "Jewish Buddenbrooks". It was published in 1951 but had only limited success at the time of publication.

Tergit died in London on 25 July 1982 at age 88. Posthumously, her recollections, Etwas Seltenes überhaupt, appeared in 1983. The Gabriele Tergit promenade in Berlin's Mitte district, not far from Potsdamer Platz, was named in her honour in 1998.