Nachhall

The poems "Nachhall" of Rolf K. Ligniez, here presented for the first time to a wider audience, are part of the tradition of escapist literature in Germany in the political dark years between 1933 and 1945. However the label "escapist" is rather vague and more coined to the socio-political circumstances. In fact we can detect in Ligniez'' poetry elements of (neo-)romanticism and petrarchism which ...