Helene Böhlau

Portrait of Helene Böhlau

Helene Böhlau (22 November 1859 in Weimar – 26 March 1940 in Augsburg) was a German novelist.^[1]

Biography

She traveled much in the East, married Omar al-Raschid Bey at Istanbul, and settled down in Munich. In 1888 her sketches of Weimar (Ratsmädelgeschichten) brought her a large measure of fame. She showed now and then a leaning toward the Romantic school, but on the whole her high power of description is realistic and her writings are imbued with passion.

Works

• Novellen (1882)
• Es hat nicht Sein Sollen (It shouldn't have been, 1891)
• Das Recht der Mutter (The mother's right, 1896; new ed., 1903)
• Neue Ratsmädel- und Weimarische Geschichten (1897)
• Halbtier (Half animal, 1899)
• Sommerbuch (1902)
• Die Kristallkugel (The crystal ball, 1903)
• Isebies (1911)

Notes

Helene Böhlau's Ratsmädel series made the daughters of Weimar Burgermeister Friedrich Kirsten known in all of Germany: Memorial tablet at Windischenstraße 13 in Weimar

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Böhlau, Helene". Encyclopedia Americana. 

External links

• Works by or about Helene Böhlau at Internet Archive