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Gertrud Kolmar

Born

in Berlin, Germany

December 10, 1894

Died

March 01, 1943

Genre

Poetry

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Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi Final Solution. Though she was a cousin of Walter Benjamin, little is known of her life. She is considered one of the finest poets in the German language.

Post-war critics have accorded Kolmar a very high place in literature. Jacob Picard, in his epilogue to Gertrud Kolmar: Das Lyrische Werk described her both as 'one of the most important woman poets' in the whole of German literature, and 'the greatest lyrical poetess of Jewish descent who has ever lived'.

Michael Hamburger withheld judgement on the latter affirmation on ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 97 ratings · 15 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors

	Die jüdische Mutter 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Susanna by Gertrud Kolmar, Marina Zancan (Editor), Mario Allegri (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mundos by Gertrud Kolmar, Berta Vias Mahou (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Jewish Mother from Berlin and Susanna: A Novel; Susanna: A Novella 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	סוזנה / השביל שביער by Gertrud Kolmar, Adalbert Stifter 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Gaze Is Turned Inward: Letters 1938-1943 by Gertrud Kolmar, Johanna Woltmann (Editor), Brigitte Goldstein (Goodreads Author) (Preface) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das lyrische Werk it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liebesgedichte by Gertrud Kolmar, Ulla Hahn (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il canto del gallo nero by Gertrud Kolmar, Marina Zancan (Editor), Giuliana Pistoso (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metamorfosi e altre liriche by Gertrud Kolmar, Stefania Stefani (translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1917	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“out of darkness i come, a woman.
and on i go and on.”
― Gertrud Kolmar

tags: poetry

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“I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange”
― Gertrud Kolmar, Dark soliloquy: The selected poems of Gertrud Kolmar [i.e. G. Chodziesner]

tags: poetry

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“She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.”
― Gertrud Kolmar

tags: self, shadows

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Gertrud Kolmar’s Followers (10)

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