Henriette Hardenberg

Henriette Hardenberg (February 5, 1894 – October 26, 1993), born Margarete Rosenberg, was a German-Jewish poet who emigrated to Britain in the late 1930s.

In her poems, she examined the relationship between people and their bodies, especially the skin as both an interface between self and world and a limiting factor.

[4] During this period, she studied dance at the Dalcroze School, and she often wrote about dancers and deployed metaphors related to bodies and movement in her poetry.

[1] In 1929, she took a job as private secretary to the American art professor Richard Offner, an expert in early Florentine painting.

[4] In 1916, she married the German poet, translator, and critic Alfred Wolfenstein, and the couple moved to Munich, where their son Frank was born.