“German” diary of Janina Hartmanowa née Kramsztyk

Abstract

Publication is based on manuscripts of German poetry translations. The author, Janina Hartmanowa née Kramsztyk (1888–1960), whose Jewish origin forced her to hide in the years 1940–1945 outside Warsaw (in Milanówek), was an experienced translator of French, German and Russian poets, as well as of Horace. Numerous of her interpretations – primarily of classical and contemporary poetry, from Goethe to the anti-fascist Franz Werfel – have survived from the war, precisely dated on the model of diary entries.