Marielli Mehr powietrzne korzenie
Mariella Mehr’s epiphyte roots

Summary/Abstract: Racist theories, which served to legitimize the white domination over colonies, deemed European Gypsies to be a foreign, lower, dangerous race. In 1925, Swiss Federal Council introduced a no-entry law for the Gypsies. Mariella Mehr was taken away from her mother just after her birth and placed in a hospital for mentally disabled infants. She spent her later years in orphanages, foster families, correctional institutions and mental asylums. She was sentenced to prison, where she was sterilized without her knowledge or consent. Mehr’s poems speak about the survived and the unsaid violence. The poet is struggling for the compensation in the form of recognition of the Gypsy culture.

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