!!!Celan, Paul eigentlich P. Antschel

b. Chernovtsy, Ukraine (then Czernowitz), Nov. 23, 1920, 
d. Paris (France) (suicide), April 20, 1970, German-speaking poet and 
translator of Jewish origin. During the war interned in a Rumanian 
labour camp, then 1945-1947 translator and publisher's reader in 
Bucharest, where he published poems under the name of C. for the first 
time. From Dec. 1947 until July 1948 in Vienna, where he wrote his 
first volume of poems "Sand aus den Urnen". Moved to Paris, where he 
worked as a teacher and translator. C.'s work was strongly influenced 
by his traumatic experiences during the Holocaust (his parents were 
killed in 1942) which he tried to fight against using a new type of 
encoded language. His literature always revolved around topics such as 
the rejection of National Socialism, the memory of countries which 
were devastated, injured people and the rejection of corrupt language. 
Awarded the Georg Buechner Prize in 1960.

!Further works
Mohn und Gedaechtnis, 1952; Von Schwelle zu Schwelle, 
1955; Sprachgitter, 1959; Die Niemandsrose, 1963; Atemwende, 1967; 
Fadensonnen, 1968; Lichtzwang, 1970; Schneepart, 1971. - Editions: 
Gesammelte Werke, 5 vols., ed. by B. Allemann and S. Reichert, 1983; 
Werke, historisch-kritische Ausgabe, ed. by B. Allemann, 1990ff.

!Literature
P. Szondi, C.-Studien, 1972; M. Blanchot, Der als letzter 
spricht. Ueber P. C., 1993; J. Felstiner, P. C., eine Biographie, 
1997; W. Emmerich, P. C., 1999.



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