Frauen | Lyrik. Gedichte in deutscher Sprache

Over 500 poems from ten centuries, viewed from four different perspectives – this results in a unique anthology that offers a fresh look at poetry by, about, and beneath women, setting standards for schools, university teaching, and future editorial projects.

Uniquely selected and structured, this collection adopts four different perspectives: the first presents poems that have already been part of various canons in the past; the second focuses on historically exemplary poems. A third group gathers poems with particular emancipatory strength; a fourth is dedicated to poems by authors of all genders that textually adopt a woman's perspective. This multi-perspective examination reveals overlaps, as well as intriguing contradictions and surprising commonalities in what a female perspective in literature can be and aspire to.