Stella Rotenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian author
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Stella Rotenberg
- Stella Rotenberg (born Stella Siegmann: 27 March 1916 – 3 July 2013) was a German language writer of prose and lyric poetry, originally from Vienna.
- For reasons of race and politics she was obliged to abandon her university medical studies in 1938 and to flee the country.
- She was keen to emigrate to England, but the necessary visa was not forthcoming and in March 1939 she fled, instead, to the Netherlands.
- Her brother Erwin had escaped to Sweden the previous year.
- For her Jewish parents, who were by this time beyond working age, there seemed to be no hope of admission to a foreign country: they remained behind.
- Stella Siegmann's long-awaited visa from the British was finally received in August 1939 and she moved to England where, a few months later, she married a fellow Austrian exile called Wolf Rotenberg.
- For the remaining 64 years of her life Stella Rotenberg lived in England, from 1948 in Leeds (Yorkshire).
- The language she preferred to use for her published work was always German, however.
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