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, The University
of Leeds
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!
Details of directions to the Department can be found on:
http://www.german.leeds.ac.uk/update/stella.htm
With best wishes
Frank Finlay
Department of German
The University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
Telephone & Fax 0113 233 3508
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