'You ask me why I write poems'

Anne Ranasinghe was born Anneliese Katz into a Jewish family in Essen in 1925. She experienced Reichskristallnacht and the burning of her local synagogue and was present when her father was carried of to Dachau. A German version of this short essay describing the author's motivation for writing poetry occurs as an afterword in German in the book 'Du fragst mich, warum ich Gedichte Schreibe', Anne Ranasinghe, Maro Verlag, 1944. Open