DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN RESEARCH SEMINAR
SPECIAL EVENT

Stella Rotenberg at 85

Tuesday 27 March 2001, 7.00-8.45pm,
Foyer of the Department of German, Michael Sadler Building
(click here for directions)

Frank Finlay (University of Leeds): Welcome and Introduction

Donal McLaughlin (Heriot-Watt University): "The Exile Poet Stella Rotenberg"

Stella Rotenberg: A Reading from Her Works (with English translations)

Eoin Bourke (National University of Ireland, Galway)
"The Austrian Anschluß in History and Literature"
Book Presentation and Discussion

Stella Rotenberg fled, via Holland, to England following Hitler's annexation of Austria in 1938. She began to write, in German, in 1940. In the six decades that have followed she has produced a significant body of work, despite being divorced from the language, culture and community in which she grew up. In isolation, in Leeds, she has addressed in her poems two main subjects: the Holocaust and the experience of exile.

All welcome!