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

Hedwig...

Yes, dear Hedwig, I think Paul Celan agreed to the recording, but this happened in 1958; a decade later, at the end of the sixties, when "Todesfuge" rose in the meantime to the position of "THE POEM OF THE 20TH CENTURY", being used - and sometimes misused - for a countless number of school-books and anthologies, Celan tried to restrict the publication and ceased reciting it in public. Please learn more from the excellent (Germman) detailed Wikipedia article

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todesfuge

and keep feeling the fascination of "Todesfuge"

Edgar Hauster • MacBook
Lent • The Netherlands

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> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 23:02:55 +0300
> From: hedbren_at_zahav.net.il
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Paul Celan's voice
> To: bconcept_at_hotmail.com; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>
> Edgar, Do you thing that he did it intentionally? Because it is the only
> recitation by himself???
> regard and thanks
> Hedwig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edgar Hauster
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 6:04 PM
> To: Hedwig Brenner ; Czernowitz Discussion Group
> Subject: 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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