Margarete Kollisch (born December 9, 1893, in Vienna; died October 11, 1979, in Staten Island, New York City) was an Austrian writer and poet who fled from the Nazis and continued her artistic creation in the United States.
Margarete Kollisch worked as a massage therapist[2] and gave private language instruction for most of the remainder of her life.
[3] Her youngest daughter, Eva Kollisch, has become a noted author as well and a professor for German, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies at the Sarah Lawrence College.
After immigrating to the United States, Kollisch became part of a circle of writers in exile alongside Mimi Grossberg and others.
[8] She also published work in the Austrian journal Literatur und Kritik alongside Mimi Grossberg, Maria Berl Lee, and Rose Ausländer.