Gegenwind

"I haven't been able to let go of poetry," says Ruth Klüger, the renowned writer and Germanist. Poems once helped her survive the concentration camp, the verses of Goethe, Schiller, and Heine that she silently repeated over and over again during the hours of standing in roll call. The poets and their books continue to surround her to this day; they are for her "a kind of staple." This volume collects for the first time Ruth Klüger's interpretations, including translated poems, from the past ten years. She interprets and translates poems from Adelbert von Chamisso to Durs Grünbein, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anne Sexton.