RE: [Cz-L] Paul Celan's voice

Hedwig...

Thank you very much for your kind appreciation and, YES, it's actually Paul Celan's voice, audiotaped by the Günther Neske Publishing House in the year 1958. As far as we know, that's the only one existing audiotaped recitation (2:56) of "Todesfuge" by the author himself.

http://czernowitzart.blogspot.de/

In 1970 Paul Celan stated:

"This poem has now to remain completely on its own for a long, long period of time. I myself, don't read it in public any more. [Dieses Gedicht muß jetzt lange, lange noch ganz bei sich bleiben. Ich selbst lese es auch nicht mehr öffentlich.]"

If you listen to the recitation very carefully, you will discover that Paul Celan misspeaked a line, he read

"Er ruft stecht tiefer ins Erdreich ihr einen ihr andern spielt weiter zum Tanz auf"

instead of

"Er ruft stecht tiefer ins Erdreich ihr einen ihr andern singet und spielt"

but that the author's prerogative!

Edgar Hauster • MacBook
Lent • The Netherlands

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> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:37:23 +0300
> From: hedbren_at_zahav.net.il
> Subject: Fw: [Cz-L] Paul Celan's voice
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hedbren_at_zahav.net.il
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:35 PM
> To: Edgar Hauster
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Paul Celan's voice
>
> Hi Edgar, Thousand thanks for he outstanding post about Celan...Is it the
> voice of Paul??You are the top master for such presentations. and thanks to
> Jerome and Bruce for putting to the Ehpes blog..
> Regards Hedwig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edgar Hauster
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:37 PM
> To: Sylvie Reicher Gsell ; Czernowitz Discussion Group
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Paul Celan's voice
>
> Sylvie, Anny, Eytan et al...
>
> Please have a look at
>
> http://czernowitzart.blogspot.de/
>
> where you are going to discover - in addition to Paul Celan's recitation of
> "Todesfuge" - his most famous poem in 10 laguages, i. e.
>
> http://bit.ly/18txLj0 - German
> http://bit.ly/11a13yy - Romanian
> http://bit.ly/11xJFFI - English
> http://bit.ly/ZeCjVl - French
> http://bit.ly/12iSWmM - Portuguese
> http://bit.ly/12OZeFz - Italian
> http://bit.ly/11aVBeK - Russian
> http://bit.ly/18uPYMZ - Dutch
> http://bit.ly/12iT3hZ - Spanish
> http://bit.ly/18z5GnV - Hebrew
>
> Two more remarks, which I'm pleased to share with you:
>
> Any Matar, our fellow memeber from Israel wrote: "It is amazing, isn't it,
> how many small shards make the mosaic of this poem. Reading poetry is a
> special joy when discussing it and finding that, although, you have read it
> together everyone understood or interpreted it differently not really
> knowing the hidden meaning of it. Eytan's mother is probably the only one
> who could put meaning into the words having known him. Thank you Eytan and
> Edgar, I shall read the poem again and again and understand it better every
> time."
>
> Prof. Dr. John Felstiner, Professor Emeritus of English at Stanford
> University, author of many standard works on Paul Celan and of the renowned
> biography "Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew", wrotr: "How good to hear from
> you, Edgar, also greetings to Eytan (whose mother I cherished as a friend,
> met twice, and exchanged letters for years)! Greetings also to your
> Czernowitzers, and their attentiveness to Paul Celan! It's moving & exciting
> to see all this put together so well, and the page of JTA almost drives me
> to the impossible time and place."
>
> It's hard to escape from the fascination of the "Deathfugue",
> notwithstanding the language used. Thank you all for your - as John
> Felstiner mentioned - "attentiveness to Paul Celan"!
>
> Edgar Hauster • MacBook
> Lent • The Netherlands
>
>
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