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Correspondence / Briefwechsel
Edited by Barbara Wiedemann
Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920–1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.
Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920–1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.
»The correspondence includes lovely Sachs poems and interesting accounts of their meeting and of contact with other prominent writers of the time. The introduction and afterword are indispensable, as is the entire book.« Choice
»The correspondence includes lovely Sachs poems and interesting accounts of their meeting and of contact with other prominent writers of the time. The introduction and afterword are indispensable, as is the entire book.« Choice
1993, 183 pages
Persons
Paul Celan
Author
Paul Celan was born on 23 November 1920 as Paul Antschel, the sole son of German-speaking Jewish parents in the then Romanian city of Czernowitz. After completing school in 1938, he began studying medicine in Tours, France, but returned to Romania a year later to complete a degree in Romance studies. In 1942, Celan’s parents were deported to a labour camp. In the autumn of that year, his father died of typhoid, and his mother was shot. Between 1942 and 1944, Celan was made to do forced labour in several Romanian camps. From 1945 to 1947 he worked as an editor and translator in Bucharest and began to publish his first poems. In 1948, he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death. That same year, he met Ingeborg Bachmann, and in 1951, Celan met the artist Gisèle de...
Paul Celan
Author
Paul Celan was born on 23 November 1920 as Paul Antschel, the sole son of German-speaking Jewish parents in the then Romanian city of Czernowitz....
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Nelly Sachs
Author
Nelly Sachs was born into a liberal Jewish family of entrepreneurs on December 10, 1891 in Berlin. In 1940, after the death of her father, she went into exile in Sweden with her mother and became a Swedish citizen in 1953. She was the first woman to receive the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1965 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 together with Samuel Agnon. Nelly Sachs died in Stockholm on May 12, 1970, the day of Paul Celan’s funeral.
Nelly Sachs
Author
Nelly Sachs was born into a liberal Jewish family of entrepreneurs on December 10, 1891 in Berlin. In 1940, after the death of her father, she...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2019
»an entirely personal matter«
Paul Celan’s exceptional oeuvre of letters – half of them unpublished so far: An oeuvre, on par with the poetic works, of immense stylistic range. Biographically insightful and poetologically fruitful.
Paul Celan, the most-interpreted German-speaking poet after 1945, is also the author of an eminent opus of letters. In this edition, it becomes visible as its own...
Year of Publication: 2018
Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2018
Poems
For Paul Celan reading was always an experience as well: the books, journals, and daily newspapers he read were as much a source of his poems as personal encounters and political events. When a...
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Year of Publication: 2011
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2011
Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes
Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight and...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2010
Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes
Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight and...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2010
Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes
Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2010
Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes
Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight and...
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Year of Publication: 2008
Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2008
Herzzeit
»Books of this stature appear only every few decades.« Deutschlandradio
The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan...
The correspondence from the period 1948-61 – a last letter penned by Celan...
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On the 130th Birthday of Nelly Sachs
On December 10, 2021, author and poet Nelly Sachs would have celebrated her 130th birthday.News