More information about this work can be found here. 

This work was presented along with a talk at the Conney Conference on Jewish Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in April 2017. The text of this talk can be found here (PDF).

Features the poem “Farewell” by Gertrud Kolmar, read by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler

Additional audio production and mastering by Greg Simpson at Velour Underground Studio

Many thanks: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Greg Simpson, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

Works cited:

W. K. Bühler, “Gauss: A Biographical Study” (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981), 3.

Gertrud Kolmar, “Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems of Gertrud Kolmar”, translated by Henry A. Smith (New York: The Seabury Press, 1975), 123-125.

Gertrud Kolmar, “My Gaze Is Turned Inward: Letters, 1934-1943”, edited by Johanna Woltmann, translated by Brigitte M. Goldstein (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004), 153-156.