The emotional and social upheaval caused by leaving one's homeland led to a profound sense of alienation for many German-speaking women writers exiled after 1933. This sense of disconnection often manifested in a poignant psychological farewell to a now inaccessible homeland. The poetry of these exiled women authors reveals a persistent search for a new and idealized homeland, navigating between memories of the past, hopes for a utopian future, and fantastical or dreamlike visions. As spatial perception becomes destabilized in exile, poetry emerges as a means to reimagine the homeland – now a "non-place" – infusing it with new existential significance and poetic dimensions. This paper examines the theme of "longing for elsewhere" in the poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler, Hilde Domin, and Mascha Kaléko, illustrating the transformation of physical places into utopias, dystopias, heterotopias, spaces of memory, and non-spaces.

Alberto Orlando (2024). „Sehnsucht nach dem Anderswo“: Utopie und Nicht-Orte in der weiblichen Exillyrik. In İ. Atasoy, H. Tekin (a cura di), Utopia and Dystopia in German Literature, Film, and Television. Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology I (pp. 101-137). Istanbul : Istanbul University Press [10.26650/B/AH9SSc16.2024.0XX.005].

„Sehnsucht nach dem Anderswo“: Utopie und Nicht-Orte in der weiblichen Exillyrik

Alberto Orlando
2024-12-01

Abstract

The emotional and social upheaval caused by leaving one's homeland led to a profound sense of alienation for many German-speaking women writers exiled after 1933. This sense of disconnection often manifested in a poignant psychological farewell to a now inaccessible homeland. The poetry of these exiled women authors reveals a persistent search for a new and idealized homeland, navigating between memories of the past, hopes for a utopian future, and fantastical or dreamlike visions. As spatial perception becomes destabilized in exile, poetry emerges as a means to reimagine the homeland – now a "non-place" – infusing it with new existential significance and poetic dimensions. This paper examines the theme of "longing for elsewhere" in the poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler, Hilde Domin, and Mascha Kaléko, illustrating the transformation of physical places into utopias, dystopias, heterotopias, spaces of memory, and non-spaces.
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Alberto Orlando (2024). „Sehnsucht nach dem Anderswo“: Utopie und Nicht-Orte in der weiblichen Exillyrik. In İ. Atasoy, H. Tekin (a cura di), Utopia and Dystopia in German Literature, Film, and Television. Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology I (pp. 101-137). Istanbul : Istanbul University Press [10.26650/B/AH9SSc16.2024.0XX.005].
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