Background
Hilde Domin was born Hildegard Lowenstein on July 27, 1912, in Cologne, Germany.
69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Hilde Domin studied at Heidelberg University.
Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Hilde Domin studied at Cologne University.
Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Hilde Domin studied at the University of Bonn.
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Hilde Domin studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Piazza di San Marco, 4, 50121 Firenze FI, Italy
Hilde received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florence in 1935.
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Hilde Domin was born Hildegard Lowenstein on July 27, 1912, in Cologne, Germany.
Hilde Domin studied at Heidelberg University, Cologne University, University of Bonn, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. She received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florence in 1935.
Domin, the daughter of a Jewish lawyer in Cologne, left Germany early enough to escape having the Holocaust become the central reference point in her writing. Furthermore, her return to the FRG after more than two decades was relatively easy and made it possible for her to enjoy a successful career as a poet.
From 1935 to 1939, Hilde worked as a language teacher in Rome. In 1939, she worked as language teacher at St Aldyn’s College. In Santo Domingo, Hilde worked as a translator and lecturer at the University of Santo Domingo, and as a photographer of architecture. Her photographs meticulously documented the Ciudad Colonial (old city) of Santo Domingo, which illustrated Palm's seminal book on the art and architecture of Europe's oldest American city. She often worked together with other European exiles, such as Austrian photographer Kurt Schnitzer.
Toward 1951, Hilde began to write in Santo Domingo, and then, some years after the end of World War II, in 1954, she and her husband returned to Germany. Domin lived as a writer in Heidelberg from 1961 until her death. In 1968, she presented Das zweite Paradies (The second Paradise), her first volume of prose, and a critical love story dealing with the experience of exile and home. From 1987 to 1988, she also worked a poetics lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, and then, from 1988 to 1989, she was a professor at the University of Mainz. Hilde continued to read her poems to audiences until 2006.
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1979The themes of exile and return have dominated the work of poet and essayist Hilde Domin. Throughout her work, Domin considers exile as a fundamental human condition. The situation of exile for Domin is bom out of an almost Nietzschean defiance of the bourgeois philistine world.
Domin sees poetic creation as an act of courage, and sees the poem as a “guarantor of freedom”. Unlike several writers such as poet Nelly Sachs, who was un¬able to flee Germany until 1940, Domin escaped direct persecution by the Nazis; she grew to consider exile not as a condition specific to Jews but as a more existential human condition.
The experience of exile also affected Domin’s literary style. Her language is rooted in both pre- and post-war German usage, and is different, more individualistic and original than that of many writers of her generation who did not leave Germany. It is equally distinctive from the diction of exiles who did not return.
Domin’s collections of critical and autobiographical pieces is personal, anecdotal, and intimate - reflective rather than strictly discursive, impressionistic rather than naturalistic.
Quotations: “Those who were persecuted because of racism, were only the most unfortunate, the most negated of exile poets.”
Hilde Domin was a member of the Deutsche Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung, PEN, American Association of Teachers of German.
Hilde left her native Germany in 1934, just before Nazi atrocities and the onset of World War II prompted more massive emigrations. She lived in the Dominican Republic, Italy, England, and the United States, returning to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany), the country she has said she loves, in 1954. This act of homecoming, which Domin has presented in a generally positive light, has set her apart from many German writers who have either remained in exile or have expressed more negative responses to issues in German culture and politics.
In 1936, Hilde Domin married Erwin W. Palme. He died in 1988.