Rose Ausländer: Motherland Word
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| Thu 14 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Fri 15 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Sat 16 Jul ’11, 9:00am–2:00pm |
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| Mon 18 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Tue 19 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Wed 20 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Thu 21 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Fri 22 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Sat 23 Jul ’11, 9:00am–2:00pm |
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| Mon 25 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Tue 26 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Wed 27 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Thu 28 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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| Fri 29 Jul ’11, 9:00am–5:00pm |
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Where: St James Theatre, 77-87 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
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- Admission: Free
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Portrait photos and poems open the door to the biography of one of the most important women poets of the 20th century. The exhibition spans an arc from Rose Ausländer’s childhood, through the time of her emigration and her ordeal in the Czernowitz ghetto, to her final years at the Nelly Sachs House in Düsseldorf. In her poems she charts the stages in her life; by means of a simple yet ingenious choice of words, she offers insights into the core of her being, her childhood, the terror and legacy of Nazi persecution, her heart as she strives for reconciliation.
Rose Ausländer’s poems and prose texts tell us of life, love, of forgotten landscapes and people in a century marked by wars, expulsions, bigotry and anti-Semitism. But humiliation, death threats and loneliness could not dampen her zest for life: “to fly, to live, to love” and to write about it. “Writing,” for Rose Ausländer, means “living! surviving!”
Held in the First Floor Gallery, St James Theatre.
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