Paula Ludwig

{{Short description|Austrian-German poet}}

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Paula Ludwig (born 1900; died 1974 in Darmstadt) was an Austrian-German poet who won the 1963 George Trakl Prize.{{cite book|author1=Michael Syrotinski|author2=Ian Maclachlan|title=Sensual Reading: New Approaches to Reading in Its Relations to the Senses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r8lke1I0MZ4C&pg=PA83|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Bucknell University Press|isbn=978-0-8387-5471-9|pages=83–85}} In her earlier life she had an affair with Yvan Goll, which caused a crisis for his wife Claire Goll.{{cite book|author=Helen Tierney|title=Women's Studies Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2bDxJW3x4f8C&pg=PA576|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31072-0|page=576}} In 1940 she began a period of exile in Brazil due to the rise of Nazism.{{cite book|author=Women in German Yearbook|title=Women in German Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZbC1ldxTeQC&pg=PA181|date=1 January 2001|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-4803-2|pages=181–196}} Her work has fallen into relative obscurity and often involved dreams.{{cite book|author=Katharina M. Wilson|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncN7uneLKrcC&pg=PA748|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8240-8547-6|pages=748–749}}