Helene Theodora Voigt-Diederichs (May 28, 1875 – December 3, 1961) was a German writer. The daughter of Christian Theodor Voigt and Marie Louise Brinckmann, she was born Helene Theodora Voigt on the family estate Marienhoff near

Eckernförde Eckernförde ( da, Egernførde, sometimes also , nds, Eckernför, sometimes also ) () is a German town in Schleswig-Holstein, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, on the coast of the Baltic Sea approximately 30 km north-west of Kiel. The population is ...

and was educated by private tutors. Voigt sent

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', ''Steppenwolf (novel), Steppenwolf'', ''Siddhartha (novel), Siddhartha'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', ...

a "fan letter" after reading one of his poems in 1897 and the two continued to exchange letters for a number of years. In 1898, she married the publisher

Eugen Diederichs Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930) was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Province of Saxony. Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896. He moved on to Leipzi ...

. She moved with him to

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

; after they separated in 1911, she moved to Brunswick but returned to Jena in 1931. She died in Jena at the age of 86.

Selected works

* ''Regine Vosgerau'', novel (1901) * ''Unterstrom'', lyrics (1901), inspired by

Jens Peter Jacobsen Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Bre ...

* ''Dreiviertel Stund vor Tag'' (Three-quarters of an hour before day-break), novel (1905) * ''Aus Kinderland'' (The land of children), stories (1907) * ''Wandertage in England'' (Wandering in England), travelogue (1912) * ''Mann und Frau'' (Husband and wife), stories (1921) * ''Marienhoff'', biography (1925), describes her mother's life * ''Ring um Roderich'' (A ring around Roderick), novel (1929) * ''Der grüne Papagei'' (The green parrot), stories (1934) * ''Gast in Siebenbürgen'' (A guest in Siebenbürgen), travelogue (1936) * ''Das Verlöbnis'' (The engagement), novel (1942) * ''Der Zaubertrank'' (The enchanted drink), stories (1948) * ''Die Bernsteinkette'' (The amber necklace), stories (1951) * ''Waage des Lebens'' (The scale of life), novel (1952)

References

1875 births 1961 deaths 20th-century German novelists German women short story writers German short story writers 20th-century German women writers 20th-century German short story writers {{Germany-writer-stub