Helene Voigt-Diederichs


Helene Theodora Voigt-Diederichs 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 and was educated by private tutors. 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. 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. She died in Jena at the age of 86.

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