Elisabeth Axmann (Siret, 19 June 1926 –

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, 21 April 2015) was a Romanian writer, art and literature

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. She spent her childhood in

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Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centra ...

and

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. Axmann moved to Germany in 1977.

Selected works

* ''Spiegelufer. Gedichte 1968-2004''. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2004 (2nd Ed. 2017). * ''Wege, Städte. Erinnerungen''. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2005. * ''Fünf Dichter aus der Bukowina'' (

Alfred Margul-Sperber Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...

Rose Ausländer Rose Ausländer (born Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer; May 11, 1901 – January 3, 1988) was a Jewish poet writing in German and English. Born in Czernowitz in the Bukovina, she lived through its tumultuous history of belonging to the Austria-Hungary, A ...

Moses Rosenkranz Moses Rosenkranz (1904–2003) was a German-language poet of Jewish descent. He was born in Berehomet in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Berehomet is part of the region of Bukovina which once hosted a large Bukovina German population; the v ...

Alfred Kittner Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...

, Paul Celan). Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2007. . * ''Die Kunststrickerin. Erinnerungssplitter''. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2010. * ''Glykon. Gedichte.'' Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2012.

References

External links

Biography at Rimbaud (Publishers)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Axmann, Elisabeth 1926 births 2015 deaths People from Siret Romanian writers German women writers Romanian emigrants to Germany