Grave in Jena

Helene Theodora Voigt-Diederichs (28 May 1875 – 3 December 1961) was a German writer.[1]

The daughter of Christian Theodor Voigt and Marie Louise Brinckmann, she was born Helene Theodora Voigt on the family estate Marienhoff near Eckernförde[1] and was educated by private tutors.[2] Voigt sent Hermann Hesse a "fan letter" after reading one of his poems in 1897 and the two continued to exchange letters for a number of years.[3] In 1898, she married the publisher Eugen Diederichs. She moved with him to Jena; after they separated in 1911, she moved to Brunswick but returned to Jena in 1931.[2] She died in Jena at the age of 86.[1]

Selected works

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References

  1. ^ a b c "Voigt-Diederichs, Helene Theodora". Datenbank Schrift und Bild (in German).
  2. ^ a b c Bédé, Jean Albert; Edgerton, William Benbow (1980). Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. p. 857. ISBN 0231037171.
  3. ^ Helt, Richard C (1995). A Poet Or Nothing at All: The Tübingen and Basel Years of Hermann Hesse. pp. 67–70. ISBN 1571810757.


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