Agathe Lindner-Welk (1892–1974)

Agathe Lindner was born in Berlin, the eldest child of Otto Lindner, director of a brewery, and his wife Clara Castorf. She attended a business school and in 1908, began working as a journalist. In 1922, she married Otto Hofmeister, who died a couple of months later. She struck up a correspondence with his friend Ehm (Emil) Welk, a writer, and married him in 1924. She published poems and travelogues during the years 1923 to 1928, but then broke off her literary career to work as her husband's secretary. After Welk was briefly arrested by the Nazi regime in 1934 and banned from publishing, she moved away from Berlin with him, settling in Neuenkirchen, near Stettin; after World War II, they returned to Bad Doberan. Agathe Lindner-Welk wrote four novels, including her best-known work, Juliane Wied (1962).