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1867–1949
A German novelist, teacher, and political activist, she wrote popular fiction shaped by a strong interest in women's lives and social questions. Her career stretched from the late 19th century well into the first half of the 20th century.
by Marie Diers
Born in 1867 in Lübz and later dying in 1949 in Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg), Marie Diers is listed in the German National Biography as a writer, politician, and teacher. That combination helps explain the feel of her work: literary, but also closely tied to public life and the roles open to women in her time.
She built her reputation as a German author of novels and other prose, and she is remembered today above all as a literary figure from the period spanning the German Empire, the Weimar era, and the years around the Second World War. The available reference material confirms her public identity clearly, but offers only limited easily accessible biographical detail, so the safest picture is of a writer whose books were shaped by both education and civic engagement.
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