Georgia Lummert (ZfL): Angela Rohr – Über Wilmersdorf nach Moskau: Psychoanalyse als Schule des Schreibens

It was only after her death that Angela Rohr (1890–1985) became known for her biographical account of the Gulag, and only later still did she gain recognition as an Expressionist poet and literary columnist. Rohr frequently changed her name and place of residence. Little is known about her Berlin years:  In 1920, after periods spent in Paris and Zurich, she moved to Uhlandstraße and later to Hindenburgstraße (today: Am Volkspark), where a commemorative plaque honors the writer, psychoanalyst, and physician. In the mid-1920s, she followed her husband Wilhelm to Moscow. Her writings on the Soviet Union are characterized by a sharp, unflinching dissection of the individual and society. This approach was shaped, in part, at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, where she studied “in an unconventional manner.” 

Reading by Emilie Defeu and Asena Ersöz, students in the Acting program at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).