Rose Ausländer - Exhibition & Competition

Portrait photos and poems open the door to the biography of one of the most important women poets of the 20th century. The exhibition spans an arc from Rose Ausländer’s childhood, through the time of her emigration and her ordeal in the Czernowitz ghetto, to her final years in Düsseldorf. Rose Ausländer’s poems and prose texts tell us of life, love, of forgotten landscapes and people in a century marked by wars, expulsions, bigotry and anti-Semitism. But humiliations, death threats and loneliness could not dampen her zest for life: “to fly, to live, to love” and to write about it. “Writing,” for Rose Ausländer, means “living! surviving!”

Please find further information here: www.goethe.de/nz

Translation Competition: English versions of any poems included in the current exhibition will be considered by an international jury. Entries should be sent to rose@vuw.ac.nz by 23 July. Please write “competition” in the subject line. Winners will be announced on 29 July.