At this time Celan secretly began to write poetry. 5), where he studied from 1936 until graduating in 1938.

2 in Cernăuți) from 1935 to 1936, followed by the Liceul Marele Voievod Mihai (Great Prince Mihai Preparatory School, now Chernivtsi School No. 2 în Cernăuți (Boys' Secondary School No. 1) from 1930 until 1935, Liceul de Băieți No.

Paul attended the Liceul Ortodox de Băieți No. His earliest known poem is titled Mother's Day 1938. In his teens Celan became active in Jewish Socialist organizations and fostered support for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. His father, Leo Antschel, was a Zionist who advocated his son's education in Hebrew at the Jewish school Safah Ivriah (meaning the Hebrew language).Ĭelan's mother, Fritzi, was an avid reader of German literature who insisted German be the language of the house. His first home was in the Wassilkogasse in Cernăuți. He became one of the major German-language poets of the post- World War II era.Ĭelan was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Cernăuți, Bukovina, a region then part of Romania and earlier part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (when his birthplace was known as Czernowitz).

He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), and adopted the pseudonym 'Paul Celan'. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. We can only be grateful that he did.Paul Celan ( / ˈ s ɛ l æ n/ German: 23 November 1920 – c. This is a beautiful volume with Hamburger’s precise, crystal-clear versions even more remarkable given his claim in the Preface to this new edition that merely correcting its proofs was ‘to revisit a battlefield, retrace my struggle over decades with texts that were a tug-of-war between life and death’. Poems from Schneepart also appear in Anvil’s new, third edition of Michael Hamburger’s selected translations of Celan, published shortly before Hamburger’s death earlier this year. Fairley’s stark, striking versions admirably capture Celan’s dense poetic experimentations (‘TO THE ORDER OF THE NIGHT Over-/ridden, Over-/slidden, Over-/swithined’) and form a companion volume to his acclaimed 2001 translation of Celan, Fathomsuns and Benighted. Paul Celan Snow Part/Schneepart translated by Ian Fairley, Carcanet, 195pp, paperback, £14.95, ISBN 978-1-85754944-7 Poems of Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburger, Anvil, 432pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 978-0-85646-399-0 Two volumes dedicated to the work of the influential twentieth-century German-Jewish poet: Ian Fairley’s translation of Schneepart is the first English version of Celan’s bold collection, written amidst the turmoil of Europe in 1968, and published in 1971, a year after the poet’s death. Shorter Reviews: Classic French and German Works

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