[1] Helga Schubert is a daughter of a librarian, who was also active in economics, and of a Gerichtsassessor who died as a soldier in 1941; she grew up in East Berlin.
Schubert completed her Reifeprüfung (secondary school examination) and afterwards worked for a year on the assembly line in an industrial plant in Berlin.
From 1977 until 1987, she was active as a conversational therapist (Gesprächstherapeut) at a marital-counseling center in Berlin.
Today she lives with painter and leading clinical psychologist Johannes Helm [de; la] in Neu Meteln, a parish of Alt Meteln near Schwerin—also known as Künstlerkolonie Drispeth (Artist Colony Drispeth).
Schubert, who had wanted to write since she was in her twenties, published a series of children's literature and prose that portrayed everyday life in East Germany.