Ruth Klüger (1931 - 2020) passed away on October 5 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and
deported to Theresienstadt she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother.
After living in Germany for a short time after the War she immigrated to New York. She was
educated in the U.S. and received degrees in English literature as well as her Ph.D. in German
literature at the University of California Berkeley. She taught at several American
universities. She has numerous scholarly publications to her credit mostly in the fields of
German and Austrian literary history. She is also recognized as a poet in her own right an
essayist and a feminist critic. She returned to Europe where she was a guest professor in
Göttingen and Vienna. Her memoir entitled weiter leben (1992) which she translated and
revised in an English parallel-text as Still Alive was a major bestseller and highly regarded
autobiographical account of a Holocaust survivor. It was subsequently translated into more than
a dozen languages. It has also generated a vigorous critical discussion in its own right. Ruth
Klüger received numerous prestigious literary prizes and other distinctions. The present volume
The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century aims to honor her memory by
assessing critically her writings and career. Taking her biography and writings as points of
departure the volume includes contributions in fields and from perspectives which her writings
helped to bring into focus acutely. In the table of contents are listed the following
contributions: Sander L. Gilman Poetry and Naming in Ruth Klüger's Works and Life Heinrich
Detering 'Spannung': Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Klüger's Writing Stephan Braese
Speaking with Germans. Ruth Klüger and the 'Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews'
Irène Heidelberger-Leonard Writing Auschwitz: Jean Améry Imre Kertész and Ruth Klüger
Ulrike Offenberg Ruth Klüger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish Mark H. Gelber
Ruth Klüger Judaism and Zionism: An American Perspective Monica Tempian Children's Voices
in the Poetry of the Shoah Daniel Reynolds Ruth Klüger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism
Vera Schwarcz A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Klüger.
