Helene Voigt

This article describes the novelist and children's book writer Helene Voigt (1857–1924). For the homeland and travel writer (1875–1961) see Helene Voigt-Diederichs .

Helene Louise Julie Voigt , b. von Ziegler and Klipphausen , (born August 21, 1857 in Bischdorf , † March 11, 1924 in Görlitz ) was a German novelist and children's book author .

Life

She was the daughter of the royal Prussian chief forester Georg von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1824–1879) and Louise, b. Countess von Pückler-Limpurg (1831–1901). At the time of her birth, her father was the chief forester in the Upper Silesian Bischdorf near Rosenberg . She grew up in Görlitz and married the royal Prussian Rittmeister Paul Voigt there in 1892 . In the following years she lived in the East Prussian Tapiau , where her husband was the director of the East Prussian Provincial Reformatory and Poor People's Institute . After his death in 1923 she moved back to Görlitz, where her widowed sister Viktoria Tschoertner (1859–1943) also lived.

Before and during the first few years of their marriage, Helene von Ziegler and Klipphausen wrote various stories for children. In addition to her maiden name Helene von Ziegler, she also used the pseudonyms Hella and Francesca von Limpurg , alluding to her mother's maiden name. In 1889 her novel Durch Surfung und Klippen was published in Berlin .

Works

• 29 stories for our little ones. Gera 1886.
• Invariably faithful. Wroclaw 1887.
• Fichtenau Castle. A tale for young people. Wroclaw 1888.
• Purified in the fire. A story for young girls. Gotha 1888.
• together with Klementine Sprengel and Karl Cassau: Spring flowers. Stories for young girls. Wesel 1888.
• Through surf and cliffs. Novel. Berlin 1889.
• Goat yogurt. Wroclaw 1889.
• In a dangerous hour. In the truce of Hoheneck. A tale for young people. Wesel 1891.
• Our curly hair. In: Helene von Ziegler and Herbert von Osten: Two new stories for children from 6-12 years. Wesel 1891.
• Just a ring. A tale for young people. Gotha 1892.
• A bouquet of lilacs. A story for young people between the ages of 9-15. Nuremberg 1896.

literature

• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon. Stuttgart 1981, p. 322.
• Voigt, Helene . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 395 ( digitized version ). Volume 1, p. 505 ( digitized version ), Volume 2, p. 463 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Literature by and about Helene Voigt in the catalog of the German National Library