Gertrud Kolmar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gertrud Kolmar

German writer

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1894

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1943

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner (10 December 1894 – March 1943), known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer.
She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi Final Solution.
Though she was a cousin of Walter Benjamin, little is known of her life.
She is considered one of the finest poets in the German language.