Re: [Cz-L] The Genesis of Paul Celan's "Todesfuge"

           Hello everybody,
       1. Re Boris B.'s reprint: The CZ rabbi is more than a 100 years old, quite over the hill,
       almost surreal. He shows a picture of his younger years with his wife and two children.
       Who might he be?
        2. Petre Solomon who translated "Todesfuge" into Romanian, stated that the original
       was based on a Lublin camp without mentioning further details.
       3. On the other hand, beginning in 1944, there were a number of escapees/returnees
      from various camps to CZ. with whom Celan could have talked.
                     Regards,
                                         Bianca
On Jan 6, 2014, at 4:56 AM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> First of all I'm thrilled by and deeply grateful for the thoughtfulness of your comments/contributions on "The Genesis of Paul Celan's "Todesfuge". Some additional remarks:
>
> Galina...
> The "Red Star"("Krasnaya Zvezda") editions dated August 10, 11, 12 - 1944 represent an amazing resource. Thank you so much. Once again I desperately wish I spoke Russian, but unfortunately I don't. Therefore, please let me ask you in addition: Do these three articles correspond to the Constantin Simonov's leaflet from 1944, which - thanks to Iosif - I could add as fifth version (Russian) to my previous posting?
>
> http://hauster.blogspot.nl/2013/05/the-genesis-of-paul-celans-todesfuge.html
>
> Download at: http://hauster.de/data/simonovru.pdf
>
> Boris...
> Of course, you are perfectly right, "it would be however hard or impossible to prove that Paul Celan actually met Simonov in Chernowitz", but such a meeting was technically possible and a chance of "1 to some 200" as suggested by Berti is not too bad. In addition, Paul Celan effected the translation Russian - Romanian of Constantin Simonov's drama "The Russian Question". A clue?! Thank you so much for joining this discussion and particularly for your pointer to Simonov's report on his travel through Czernowitz!
>
> Iosif...
> Great contribution, as always, thank you! As mentioned, I've updated my posting (see above) by introducing your Russian version of the pamphlet and in addition I'm going to trace the Romanian edition as well. No doubt about, the parallels between "Todesfuge" and "ER" are obvious and most probably a result of a kind of a literary competion and of poetic experiments, which were very much "in vogue" among "our" Czernowitzer poets Celan, Weißglas, Ausländer, Kittner and many more.
>
> On the other hand, for me it's perfectly clear, that Simonov's "all the morning, all day, all the evening, and all the night" finds it's correspondence in Celan's "Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening - we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night". What do we learn, dear Iosif, from the Russian version on "bands" or the "radio", which "played" or "blared" via loudspeakers?
>
> Berti...
> Fabulous Yiddish-German translation, thank you so much! I read - in German - Simonov's report on his travel through Czernowtz, as indicated by Boris and I think you are perfectly right concerning Simonov's mixture of facts and fiction. His multi-volume war diaries as well as his eyewitness - in fact rather earwitness - reports are nevertheless valuable rescources for all of us.
>
> Warmest wishes to all of you and - assuming your permission - I'm going to add your comments to the posting as well.
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands

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