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Dzvinia Orlowsky Interviews Stuart Friebert, Translator of Elisabeth Schmeidel’s Poetry

By Dzvinia Orlowsky   

Elisabeth Schmeidel (1945-2012) was born in Austria. Her father Herrmann von Schmeidel, a conductor in Salzburg, and her mother, Eleonora von Arbesser Rastburg, named her after the writer Bettina von Arnim, but she was baptized Elisabeth, absent any saint named Bettina.