Berta Lask
/Overview
Berta Lask born Wadowice, Poland November 17, 1878 (d. 1967). German communist poet and dramatist. Feminist; pacifist. Wrote anti-war poems in World War I and novels in Weimar Germany. Critic of industrial pollution. Exiled to USSR, 1933; returned to East Germany, 1953.
Quotations
I carry my child through blossoms and sunshine
I carry my child through seas of blood and horror
Who hears my soul’s distant cries?
Will my child ever see the brighter suns and stars?
(“Woman”; photo literatur.port.de)