Esther Dischereit is a poet, essayist, and playwright in Berlin. She is the author of the essay collection Mama darf ich das Deutschlandlied singen (2020) and editor of Hab keine Angst, erzähl alles. Das Attentat von Halle und die Stimmen der Überlebenden (2021). Her verse collection Sometimes a Single Leaf appeared in English in 2020 (Arc Publications) and was reviewed in the Summer 2020 issue of WLT.
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Berlin poet, essayist, and playwright Esther Dischereit responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the shelling near Babyn Yar, the site of Nazi Germa...
Todmorden, United Kingdom. Arc. 2020. 133 pages.
BORN IN GERMANY in 1952 to a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in hiding, Esther Dischereit grew up in a haunted society, w...
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After every right-wing act of violence we hear once more that it was a “lone wolf” attack. Esther Dischereit argues that this is an implausible cover-up of at...
Mürtüz Yolcu (Enver) and Mansou Ciss (Otello) producing the radio play Blumen für Otello, April 9, 2014 / Photo by Sandro Most courtesy of Deutschlandradio
Author’s note: Flowers...