About Margarete Böhme
Margarete Böhme was, arguably, one of the most widely read German writers of the early 20th century. Böhme authored 40 novels – as well as short stories, autobiographical sketches, and articles. The Diary of a Lost Girl, first published in 1905 as Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, is her best known and bestselling book. By the end of the 1920s, it had sold more than a million copies, ranking it among the bestselling books of its time. One contemporary scholar has called it “Perhaps the most notorious and certainly the commercially most successful autobiographical narrative of the early twentieth century.”. At first, Böhme wrote what would today be termed popular fiction – but as her work matured, she turned to more serious themes. When it was first published, it was believed to be a genuine diary, and Böhme claimed only to be its editor. At age 17, she published her first story, “The Secret of the Rose Passage,” in a Hamburg newspaper.
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