Mascha Kaléko (1907-1975) initially lived in Berlin. As a Jew, she emigrated to New York in 1937 and later to Jerusalem.
She rose to literary fame in the 1930s with her poems. Her “big city poetry” with an ironic and tender tone is characteristic. Her poems owe their charm to a peculiar mixture of melancholy and wit, topicality and music, romantic expression and political acuity. Long after her death, her work still has a large following.

Ursula Kurze reads from her work, tells of the poet's life and sings poems in her own settings. On Holocaust Memorial Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.