Therese Chromik presents her new volume of poetry "The Nightingale and Chaos"
Therese Chromik presents new poems in a new world in her new book. Her previously optimistic poems have been clouded by the changed reality - the pandemic, war and climate catastrophes have left their mark. The poet is always also a rapporteur: experience and reflection go hand in hand without compromising the poetic brilliance. Chromik does not refrain from continuing the traditional motifs: the wheeling peacock, the cooing pigeons, the blackbirds and the dragonflies, and somewhere on the pages between two titmice.
"When I write poems, I want to serve both: Emotion and understanding, to invite reflection and empathy. The core of knowledge and the core of feeling in the lyrical apple ... That's how I want it." (Therese Chromik)
Therese Chromik, born in 1943, studied philosophy, geography and art and taught at various grammar schools. She was principal of the Theodor Storm School in Husum until 2007. She was awarded the Nikolaus Lenau Prize in 2012.
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