Mascha Kaléko: Google Doodle honors the German poet

The Google logo today honors the German poet Mascha Kaléko.

She is one of the most important poets.

The most important stages in your life.

• Google Doodle

  honors the German poet

  Mascha Kaléko

  on Wednesday, September 16,

  2020

  .

• She is one of the most successful female poets.

• Her life is shaped by her flight from

  National Socialism

  and her life in exile.

Kassel / Berlin -

On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, the

logo

is

dedicated to

the German poet

.

She is considered to be one of the most important lyricists and is known for her melancholy, metropolitan, but also casual poems.

Mascha Kaléko

is a representative of the new objectivity - and the only female, German-speaking poet who is assigned to the style.

Her life was marked by strokes of fate and the feeling of homelessness.

The

works of the Jew

banned under

- she emigrated to the

.

Google honors Mascha Kaléko: one of the most important poets

The

logo

shows a serious-looking woman,

, who puts her hands on a typewriter.

The word “Google” can be seen on it.

It is surrounded by flowers and rain clouds.

Not by chance, of course.

It is a reference to her works “The Little Fame” and “The Early Years” in which both metaphors play a role.

For example, in “The Little Glory” it says: “What is like that little glory / As much as a hothouse flower?”

Google Doodle

itself is a graphic change to the logo for special occasions.

This time, the logo of the artist Ramona Ring pays homage to the Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko, who died 45 years ago in Zurich.

On September 16, 1974 she gave the last reading before her death in

- the reason that

dedicates the logo to her today.

She is known for her

, which, as the name implies, is shaped by the life and meaning of a big city.

The following are her most famous publications - some were posthumous:

• The lyrical shorthand booklet

• Small reading book for adults.

  The rhyming and the absurd

• The few brilliant years.

Google logo shows poet: The eventful life of Mascha Kaléko

The future poet

born as Golda Malka Aufen

in Austria-Hungary, her parents were Austrian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish.

The family moved to

Germany

at the beginning of the

, first to Frankfurt am Main, then to Marburg and finally to

.

Anyone looking for something clever, poetic, lifestyle or funny at #MaschaKaleko is guaranteed to find it.

Google knows that too and is currently dedicating a #Doodle to her.

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In 1929,

at the age of 22

,

published

her first poems, which

reflect

life in

in the melancholy and cheerful style that later became typical for her.

During this time she came into contact with the artists' pub “Romanische Café” in Berlin and thus with poets such as

and

.

Google honors Mascha Kaléko: Nazis force the eminent poet into exile

The young poet was successful with her publications and soon she landed on the radio and the artists' cabaret - until the Nazis came to power.

As a Jew, her works were branded as "harmful" and "undesirable" literature - as a result,

emigrated to

in the USA in

1938 with her husband and son

.

Like so many other writers,

was suddenly confronted in exile with a feeling of homelessness and uprooting.

Her exile works are shaped by her longing for

.

This feeling can be found in “The Little Difference”: “A German émigré spoke to Mister Goodwill:“ Certainly, it stays the same, if I say land instead of land, I say homeland for home and poem for poem.

Certainly, I am very happy: But I am not happy. "

Google Doogle shows Mascha Kaléko: the poet's life shaped by loss

After the end of the Second World War,

returned

to West Germany for a while.

She emigrated again for her husband: this time to Jerusalem.

In 1960 she was awarded the "Fontane Prize", which she refused because a former SS man was on the jury.

did not feel at home

in Israel

either.

Her life remained marked until its end by the deep turning point that her emigration from

meant for her, but also by the loss of her son in 1968 and her husband five years later.

She wrote: "Remember: You only die your own death, but you have to live with the death of others."

Google and Mascha Kaléko: The poet never found her home again

In 1975 the eminent poet

died of

on her way back in Zurich after a trip to Berlin

. Until her death at the age of 67, her works were full of puns and bubbling over with energy, but from their exile onwards they became increasingly melancholy, with loss and death playing a major role. A rapprochement with Berlin, her former home, was

no longer possible

after the

. About her first visit after the end of National Socialism, she wrote: “And everything asks how I find Berlin. . ./How do I find it? Oh, I'm still looking for it! "