Life Trajectories and Constellations of Eleonora Kalkowska (1883–1937)
Life Trajectories and Constellations of Eleonora Kalkowska (1883–1937)

Summary/Abstract: The study is devoted to Eleonore Kalkowska (1883–1937), a forgotten Polish-German writer, mostly remembered as a playwright from Berlin associated with the Zeittheater movement, especially as an author of famous play Josef, staged at Volksbühne in 1929. In the paper Kalkowska is presented in the broader context – instead of analyzing her works, the author outlines the trajectories of the writer’s life and constellations. At the one hand the author focuses on Kalkowska’s Weimar Republic period (for example writer’s contacts with Karin Michaelis) and the years of her exile from the Third Reich at the other. The later aspect allows to bring up Kalkowska case as an important and forgotten link of the German exile studies.

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