Re: [Cz-L]Paul Anthscel, Paul Celan

My mother, Pearl Spiegel Fichman, wrote about Paul Antschel / Celan in
her memoirs:

"Volksgarten (People’s Garden), which was in a different part of
Czernovitz, with a skating rink and soccer fields and a carefully
tended flower garden and Schiller Park, a hilly but small park - these
two had none of the natural attractions of our beloved Habsburgshohe,
with its atmosphere of calm forest. In my life and that of my friends,
nothing compared and ever will with that place. The chestnuts, the
beeches, the fir trees and pine trees exuded an aroma rarely matched
anywhere. Whenever I happen to take a vacation in high mountains, that
aroma returns as a smell of delight from years long gone.

I got to know, at least by sight, many other faithful lovers of that
place. Some people sat at a certain bench daily. Their muse met them at
that particular spot. I remember going to the park with Paul Celan
(Antschel) and he carried a volume of Rilke poetry. He stood up on a
bench and started reading a poem, while I was standing and enjoying the
poetry as well as the lyrical sound of his voice. Something romantic as
well as intellectual was permeating our activities. We talked of
matters of feeling and of the intellect; nobody paid attention to
making money or considering jobs; we were teenagers then; we lived
frugally, left the making of a living to our parents. If we did some
tutoring, it was not worthy of discussion."

Before Memories Fade
p. 199

Eytan Fichman, AIA
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Lasky <steve725_at_optonline.net>
To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 7:41 pm
Subject: [Cz-L]Paul Anthscel, Paul Celan

It was pointed out to me that the P. Antschel in the photo in my page
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/czernowitz-school-lmvm.htm (the page on
my site with the grad. photos from the Liceul Marele Voviod Mihai
school) was later known as the poet Paul Celan. Was this known by the
group already? 
 
Steven Lasky 
New York 
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com 
blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com%c2%a0
steve_at_museumoffamilyhistory.com  
 

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