Friday, 1/17/2025
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Mascha Kaléko started writing in the 1920s in Berlin, and from 1929 she published in daily newspapers; the early poems are pointed snippets of everyday life in Berlin dialect. She made a name for herself, mingling with the greats of the Berlin bohemia in the Romanisches Café. In 1933, her first book "Das lyrische Stenogrammheft" was published and found immediate success. Her success as a literate abruptly ended with the Nazis' rise to power. As a Jew, she was no longer allowed to publish. In 1938, she left Berlin, but the city remained her fixed point of reference. In one of her last poems Bleibtreu heisst die Strasse, she writes "40 years ago I lived here [...] Here was my happiness at home. And my distress. Here my child was born. And had to leave. Here my friends visited me and the Gestapo", she concludes with the question "What remains of that? [...] an old wound unhealed"

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