Events not hosted by LBI London, but which may be of interest.
The German-Jewish writer Gabriele Tergit (1896–1982) has emerged as one of the major rediscoveries in German literature during the last decade. Having built an impressive career as one of the few female court reporters in the Weimar Republic, Tergit fled Berlin early in March 1933. After five years in Czechoslovakia and Mandate Palestine, she settled in London in 1938, spending the second half of her adult life here – first in emigrant circles in Hampstead, then in Putney. Given the forthcoming first English translation of her novel Effingers (1951), Anna Weber introduces Tergit…
