W. Heimburg

Born Bertha Behrens in Thale, Germany, on September 7, 1850, she wrote under the name Wilhelmine Heimburg, often shortened to W. Heimburg. She was the daughter of military doctor and writer Hugo Behrens, and she spent much of her school years in Quedlinburg.

Heimburg became one of the best-known entertainment writers of her time. Much of her fiction appeared serially in Die Gartenlaube, one of the most widely read German family magazines of the era, and reference works describe her as a widely read author of light novels.

She is also remembered for completing Das Eulenhaus, an unfinished novel by E. Marlitt. Heimburg died on September 9, 1912, in Kötzschenbroda, now part of Radebeul.