Eröffnungsveranstaltung Literarischer Herbst: „Ein Leben kann Schatten werfen über den Mond …“

In the organizer's words:

Homage to Selma Meerbaum - born 1924 in Czernowitz/Ukraine, died 1942 in the Michailowska concentration camp - in poems and biographical texts.
Read by Susanne Schwan, with musical impressions by Simon Bellett.

"... I have not had time to finish writing...": In red pencil, the Jewish girl Selma hastily scribbles it under the first verse of her poem "Tragik" - the last of the 57 she has written since she was 15. At the age of 18, at the end of 1942, Selma and her family perished in the German camp Michailowska/Ukraine.
Her small body of work is part of the great literary legacy of the extinguished German-Jewish culture of Bukovina. 57 poems that are now part of world literature, although the world still hardly knows them - unlike the diaries of Anne Frank.
"I want to live," Selma writes, "I want to laugh and lift weights and want to fight and love and hate and hold the sky with my hands. I don't want to die, no. No!"