Helene Böhlau

Petra Watzke (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Ed. by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 22 Nov 1859
Died 26 Mar 1940
Activity 1884-1911

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany

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Helene Böhlau was a German author who published about forty novels, novellas, and collections of stories between 1882 and 1939. Böhlau was successful both as a writer of popular stories mostly detailing life in Weimar, and of ambitious literature dealing with women’s emancipation and women’s rights. She wrote the witty Rathsmädelgeschichten, a collection of cheerful stories about the lives of the young daughters of a Weimar civil servant. These stories cemented her popularity and commercial success as an author and she wrote several sequels over the course of her career. She also wrote socially critical works, most importantly Der Rangierbahnhof (1896, The Switchyard), Das Recht der Mutter (1896,…

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Citation: Watzke, Petra . "Helene Böhlau". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 April 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13412, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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