Die schönsten Liebesgedichte

Sigrid Damm has selected the most beautiful love poems from nearly a thousand years for this volume: from Walther von der Vogelweide to Goethe, Erich Fried, and Paul Celan, up to Sarah Kirsch and Durs Grünbein. It has become a very personal, intimate book, in which she has included all the poems she particularly appreciates and loves. "Let us take these love poems, this homage to life, as a puzzle to decipher our own psyche, as an echo of our longings, as secret little gifts of happiness yet to be redeemed. What else makes us necessary but love? And are love poems not the purest and most essential of all realities, just like love itself? Thus, love seems to provide support for lovers." (Sigrid Damm).