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Transcribe & translate the letters of playwright Bernhard Blume & activist Carola Rosenberg in the years before their escape from Nazi Germany.
Learn moreVolunteers are invited to transcribe German-language text of letters and other ephemera; to draft physical descriptions of paper, ink, stamps, and other markings; to draw on their own expertise to suggest historical connections; and eventually to translate into English the transcriptions generated.
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About I Have Gone & I Am Going
As a young adult in Weimar Germany, Bernhard was an up-and-coming playwright, hailed alongside Bertholt Brecht as one of “the five B’s.” Carola was an actor, vanguard feminist, and educational reformer. Their lives were overturned when the Nazis came to power and Carola was dismissed from her teaching position because of her political activity and her Jewish ancestry. I’ve been entrusted by their descendants with several tranches of their correspondence, among them Bernard’s 1924 letters to his brother dying in a Stuttgart Hospital, and Carola’s 1935 letters home to Bernhard as she searched for employment in the US that would allow them to emigrate. With the support of [TK] I’m curating an online exhibition that tracks the course of two young artists through a period of economic hardship, political polarization, and ultimately democratic collapse and fascist takeover.