"Lass mein Volk ziehen". Zur Bibelrezeption im lyrischen Werk Stella Rotenbergs

Abstract

In her poetry, the exiled Austrian-Jewish author Stella Rotenberg made wide­spread use of biblical texts, themes and figures. Her biblical references are always over­shadowed by the Shoah, and express her personal experience of suffering and loss. Stella Rotenberg wrote partly to preserve the memory of the victims of the Shoa and partly to come to terms with her own traumatic experiences. Born in 1915 in Vienna, Rotenberg was confronted with anti-Semitism from an early age. The “Anschluss” of 1938 meant the end of her life in Austria. In 1939 she managed to flee to the Netherlands and finally to Great Britain. In 1940 she began the write poems. Stella Rotenberg has received several awards for her work.