Paul Celan (1920–1970)
Author of Poems of Paul Celan
About the Author
Paul Celan was born in 1920 in Czernowitz, Romania, to Jewish parents, who spoke German in the home. His mother and father were both deported to concentration camps during Nazi occupation and killed. Celan managed to hide for some time and then survived the war in a Romanian detention camp. After show more the war, he worked for a time as an editor and translator; he went to Paris to lecture on German literature. Celan began to receive recognition as a poet with the publication of his volume Mohn und Gedachtnis (Poppy and Memory) in 1952 and continued to publish steadily until his suicide in 1970. Divided between conflicting loyalties and cultures, Celan created a unique idiom. Despite the traumatic experience of Nazi occupation, he chose to devote himself to the study of German literature. His poetry is one of the most radical attempts to reconstruct the German language and literature in the aftermath of the Holocaust. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Paul Celan
Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (German Edition) (2014) 93 copies
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (2020) 38 copies
Alles is te zwaar, omdat alles te licht is de brieven van Paul Celan aan Diet Kloos-Barendregt (1999) 11 copies
Gesammelte Werke in sieben Bänden. (suhrkamp taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe (Reihenkürzel: ST), (TBA-Kürzel: 0888)) (1973) 7 copies
"Fremde Nähe": Celan als Übersetzer: Eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Literaturarchivs (1997) — Associated Name — 4 copies
Übertragungen Aus Dem Russischen. Alexander Blok. Ossip Mandelstam. Sergej Jessenin. (1986) 4 copies
Gedichte : Eine Auswahl 3 copies
Arte Poética 3 copies
Gedichte 3 copies
Poesie. Volume primo 2 copies
Schneepart: Vorstufen, Textgenese, Reinschrift (Werke / Paul Celan) (German Edition) (2002) 2 copies
Gesammelte Werke in sieben Bänden. Band 4-5: 2 Bde. (suhrkamp taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe (Reihenkürzel: ST),… (1974) 2 copies
Pavot et mmoire 2 copies
Gedichte nach dem Holocaust : Rose Ausländer, Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Hilde Domin, Erich Fried u.a. ; mit… (1995) 2 copies
Dikt 2 copies
Hashas ve Bellek 2 copies
דבר מה יהיה : מבחר שירים 1 copy
ことばの格子 1 copy
Gedichte I 1 copy
Iglesia y Liberación Humana: II conferencia General del Episcopado Latino-americano. Medellín 1 copy
Revista de Andorra. Nº 1 1 copy
Paul Celan Volume 1 1 copy
Os Primeiros Poemas 1 copy
死のフーガ―パウル・ツェラン詩集 1 copy
שושנת האין : מבחר שירים 1 copy
דבר-מה יהיה : מבחר שירים 1 copy
Versuri 1 copy
סורג-שפה 1 copy
32 Poems 1 copy
Lírica amorosa alemã moderna — Author — 1 copy
Paul Celan Volume 2 1 copy
Poesie - Volume secondo 1 copy
Dikt 1 copy
Poezi të zgjedhura 1 copy
Correspondencia : (1951-1970) : con una selección de cartas de Paul Celan a su hijo Eric (2008) 1 copy
Lumen ääni 1 copy
Dánta le Paul Celan 1 copy
Paul Celan: Achtzig Gedichte 1 copy
Die rückwärtsgesprochenen Namen - Gedichte in gegenläufiger Chronologie 1970 - 1952, poetologische Texte,… (1996) 1 copy
The Fifties, Third Issue 1 copy
Dil Kafesi 1 copy
Zaman Kirmizisi Dudaklarla 1 copy
A Handful of Sleep Seed 1 copy
Sete Rosas Mais Tarde 1 copy
Os grupos afro-americanos 1 copy
Poesie Vol.1-2 1 copy
Gedichte II 1 copy
Associated Works
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (Penguin Classics) (2012) — Contributor — 62 copies
Transit I 1988 : Oostenrijkse lyriek van de twintigste eeuw = Österreichische Lyrik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (1989) — Contributor — 3 copies
Angefügt, nahtlos, dem Heute. Paul Celan übersetzt Giuseppe Ungaretti (2006) — Translator — 2 copies
Vakante Glut/Dans la chaleur vacante: Gedichte. Französisch und deutsch (Bibliothek Suhrkamp) (1989) — Translator — 2 copies
Tree 4: Winter 1974 — Contributor — 2 copies
Die Sammlung der Nationalgalerie : 1945-1968 : Der geteilte Himmel : die Dokumentation einer Ausstellung (2014) — Contributor — 2 copies
Poesie : Hebräisch, Deutsch — Translator — 1 copy
Die Lyrik Paul Celans und der Geistige Raum Rumäniens — Associated Name — 1 copy
Proteus Magazine, No. 4 — Contributor — 1 copy
Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt ein Drama in sechs Akten — Translator, some editions — 1 copy
Midnight Press WEB 第八号 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Celan, Paul
- Legal name
- Antschel, Paul (birth name)
- Other names
- Целан, Пауль
CELAN, Paul - Birthdate
- 1920-11-23
- Date of death
- 1970-04-20
- Burial location
- Cimetière Parisien de Thiais, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Romania (birth)
France (naturalized | 1955) - Birthplace
- Cernăuţi, Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Cause of death
- suicide
- Places of residence
- Bucharest, Romania
Vienna, Austria
Paris, France - Education
- Liceul Marele Voievod Mihai [Great Governor Mihai Preparatory School; now Chernivtsi School No. 5]
- Occupations
- poet
translator
teacher - Relationships
- Eisenreich, Brigitta (lover)
Sachs, Nelly (friend)
Bachmann, Ingeborg (lover)
Meerbaum-Eisinger, Selma (cousin) - Organizations
- Gruppe 47
- Awards and honors
- Georg Büchner Preis (1960)
Bremen Prize (1958) - Short biography
- Paul Celan was the most commonly-used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Cernăuți (Czernovitz) in a region that was then in Romania and is now in Ukraine. In 1938, he went to France to study medicine but returned to his hometown in 1939 to study literature and Romance languages. Following the invasion of Germany in World War II, Jews were forced into a ghetto, where Celan translated Shakespeare's sonnets and continued to write his own poetry. He was pressed into forced labor and then sent to a labor camp; he was separated from his parents, who were deported by the Nazis to a concentration camp and perished. Celan was imprisoned for 18 months until February 1944, when the advance of the Red Army forced the Romanians to abandon the camps. He returned to Cernăuţi and then went to Bucharest, where he was active in the Jewish literary community. He went to Vienna, where he published his first collection of poems, Sand from the Urns (1948), and had a love affair with Ingeborg Bachmann. In Paris, he met and married in 1952 Gisèle de Lestrange, a graphic artist, with whom he had two children. He worked as a teacher of German language and literature at the École Normale Supérieure, and produced a large number of translations from six different languages, helping to popularize the works of Osip Mandelstam and Paul Valéry, among others. Many of his own poems contain references to historical and political events; his famous poem "Death Fugue," which appears in many anthologies, captures the horror of the Holocaust. He received the Bremen Prize for German Literature in 1958 and the Georg Buchner Prize in 1960. He became depressed and committed suicide by drowning in the Seine in 1970. Today Celan is widely regarded as one of the most compelling poets of the second half of the 20th century.
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