Sarah Kirsch

[1] Sarah Kirsch was originally born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony but had changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's antisemitism.

[1] In 1965, she co-wrote a book of poems with writer Rainer Kirsch, to whom she was married for ten years.

[2] She protested against East Germany's expulsion of Wolf Biermann in 1976, which led to her exclusion from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

She is mainly known for her poetry, but she also wrote prose and translated children's books into German.

[3] According to complete review, "the great German-language post-war poets were largely East German (or Austrian) born in the mid to late 1930s which included towering figures such as Volker Braun, Heinz Czechowski" and Sarah Kirsch who was "the most prominent female representative of that generation.