biography
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Kolmar, Gertrud
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originally Gertrud Chodziesner
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pronunciation:
[kolmah(r)]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1894–1943?)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Berlin, Germany. Remaining in Berlin after 1933 to nurse her Jewish father, she was sent to a concentration camp in 1943. Her poetry is vivid, rich in imagery, and characterized by a diversity of style and topics. It focuses on nature and the individual, with themes of loneliness, longing, and the relationship between the sexes. Most of her work was published well after 1945, but two collections of poetry appeared in her lifetime: Preußische Wappen (1934) and Die Frau und die Tiere (1938). |
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