Rose Ausländer
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| Born | Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer May 11, 1901 Czernowitz, Duchy of Bukovina, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | January 3, 1988 (aged 86) Düsseldorf, West Germany |
| Occupation | poet, newspaper editor, bank clerk, foreign correspondent |
| Language | German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew |
| Citizenship | German, US |
| Genres | expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, modern poetry |
| Subjects | nature, homeland, shoah, love and death |
| Notable works | Blinder Sommer |
| Years active | 1921-1986 |
| Spouse | Ignaz Ausländer (October 19, 1923 - 1931) |
| Partner | Helios Hecht (1927-1934) |
| Children | none |
Rose Ausländer (May 11, 1901 – January 3, 1988), maiden name Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer, was a Jewish German language and English language poet. Born in Czernowitz in the Bukovina, she lived through its tumultuous history of belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Romania, and eventually the Soviet Union. She was torn between her home land, caring for her ailing mother, and the United States, and finally settled in West Germany. Ausländer owned only two suitcases throughout her life.
Her work spans from expressionism over Neue Sachlichkeit to modern. The Nazi regime pulped her first poetry book in 1939, and it took 26 years until she published a second.
Rose Ausländer was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, to a German speaking Jewish family. At the time Chernowitz was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her father Sigmund (Süssi) Scherzer (1871–1920) was from a small town near Czernowitz, and her mother Kathi Etie Rifke Binder (1873–1947) was born in Czernowitz to a German-speaking family. From 1907 and 1919, she went to school in Czernowitz. In 1916 her family fled the Russian Occupying Army to Vienna but returned to Cernauti, Bukovina which was given the name 'Cernauti' and became part of the Kingdom of Romania after 1918.
In 1919, she began studying literature and philosophy in Cernauti. At this time, she developed a lifelong interest in the philosopher Constantin Brunner. After her father died in 1920 she left university.
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