author
Helene Böhlau
1859–1940
Best known for vivid, sharp-eyed fiction about women’s lives and the world around them, this German writer won early fame with her Weimar stories and went on to publish novels and novellas that often pushed against the limits placed on women in her time.
5 Audiobooks
Deutsche Humoristen, 3. Band (von 8)
by Hans Hoffmann, Helene Böhlau, Max Eyth, Otto Ernst Schmidt
Ratsmädel- und Altweimarische Geschichten
by Helene Böhlau
Ratsmädelgeschichten
by Helene Böhlau
Halbtier: Roman
by Helene Böhlau
Der Rangierbahnhof
by Helene Böhlau
About the author
Born in Weimar in 1859, Helene Böhlau was the daughter of publisher Hermann Böhlau and was educated privately. She began publishing in the 1880s, and her Ratsmädelgeschichten (stories of young women in Weimar) brought her wide recognition.
Her fiction often focused on women’s independence, marriage, family life, and the social rules of her era. Reference works and biographical sources also note that she traveled extensively, married Friedrich Arnd in Istanbul, and later lived in Munich.
Böhlau died in 1940. She is remembered as an important German novelist and storyteller whose work combined social observation with a strong interest in women’s rights and inner lives.