author
W. Heimburg
1850–1912
A popular German novelist of the late 19th century, she wrote warm, readable fiction that reached a wide audience through magazine serialization. Publishing as W. Heimburg, she became especially associated with the family-centered storytelling of Die Gartenlaube.
4 Audiobooks
Vaarin muistikirja; Majala: Kaksi kertomusta
by W. Heimburg
Liesje van den Lompenmolen
by W. Heimburg
Gertrude's Marriage
by W. Heimburg
A Sister's Love: A Novel
by W. Heimburg
About the author
Born Emilie Wilhelmine Bertha Behrens in Thale, she is better known by the pen names W. Heimburg and Wilhelmine Heimburg. She lived from September 7, 1848, to September 9, 1912, and wrote novels and stories that made her a widely read figure in German popular literature.
Much of her work appeared in the illustrated family magazine Die Gartenlaube, one of the most influential periodicals in the German-speaking world at the time. Her fiction was known for domestic plots, emotional turns, and an accessible style that appealed to a broad reading public.
She is also remembered for completing Das Eulenhaus, the unfinished final novel of E. Marlitt after Marlitt's death. That connection places her within a well-known tradition of 19th-century German magazine fiction, where serialized storytelling helped authors build devoted audiences.