Using Gertrud Kolmar's (1894-1943) complex relationship to her German-Jewish origins as a point of departure, this study explores the hidden discursive structures in her poetry. The focus is on the poem Garden in Summer from her 1937 cycle of poems titled WELTEN ( WORLDS ). A detailed analysis of transtextual traces and their discursive interpolation reveals the poem as a kaleidoscope of scenarios of cultural, emotional, and spiritual encounter and permeation between Germanness and Jewishness within the scope of a melancholic endgame.

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Friederike Heimann, Hamburg.