Languageland

Elisabeth Augustin, 1903-2001, poet in exile, and Holocaust survivor.

One of Elisabeth's poems begins with "why the, nightingale, were you give a voice, if you don't sing?"
She never stopped singing. Sometimes gentle, sometimes impassionately attacking any form of discrimination.

In her workroom, facing the garden, Elisabeth Augustin slowly fades away, a real life re-enactment of the prophetic last pages of her novel Labyrint. Only a few years earlier she still wrote poems, now she passes on i...