Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Welten (Worlds) is a cycle of poems written in the second half of 1937 by Gertrud Kolmar, who was to perish six years later in Auschwitz. In 1947, the manuscript was passed by her brother-in-law to Peter Suhrkamp, publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag — now Germany's premier literary press — and was one of the first books to appear from that press after the war.
Our guest, Friederike Heimann, studied German, political science and sociology at the FU Berlin. She received her doctorate in 2012 on the poet Gertrud Kolmar under Professor Alfred Bodenheimer at the Center for Jewish Studies in Basel. Since 2014 Dr. Heimann has been working at the Jewish Salon at Grindel in Hamburg, where she has welcomed many different guests from literature and the sciences. She currently lives as a freelance author and literary scholar in Hamburg.
Welten (Worlds) is a cycle of poems written in the second half of 1937 by Gertrud Kolmar, who was to perish six years later in Auschwitz. In 1947, the manuscript was passed by her brother-in-law to Peter Suhrkamp, publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag — now Germany's premier literary press — and was one of the first books to appear from that press after the war.
Our guest, Friederike Heimann, studied German, political science and sociology at the FU Berlin. She received her doctorate in 2012 on the poet Gertrud Kolmar under Professor Alfred Bodenheimer at the Center for Jewish Studies in Basel. Since 2014 Dr. Heimann has been working at the Jewish Salon at Grindel in Hamburg, where she has welcomed many different guests from literature and the sciences. She currently lives as a freelance author and literary scholar in Hamburg.
