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

Leon Blum was not just "a man", he was the elected prime minister of
France
during the years 1936-37.
He was the first Socialist, and the first Jewish premier of France,
presiding over the Popular Front coalition government.
He died in 1950, therefore I find it hard to believe
that he was interred in Buchenwald.

Mimi
On Jan 6, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Galina Kharaz wrote:

> [Please post in Plain Text in the future --thanks]
>
> Dear Edgar,
> I compared the texts of articles by Konstantin Simonov in the
> newspaper and=
> in
> the brochure, which Josif had sent.
> These texts are almost identical, except for an episode about a man
> who cal=
> led
> himself Leon Blum. Simonov wrote later that it was a mistake, and
> that Leon
> Blum was at that time in Buchenwald camp. This is probably why this
> episode=
> was
> excluded from the text of the brochure.
>
> Sincerely,
> Galina.
>
>
> 2014/1/6 Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> First of all I'm thrilled by and deeply grateful for the
>> thoughtfulness o=
> f
>> 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
>> desperatel=
> y
>> 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 fif=
> th
>> version (Russian) to my previous posting?
>>
>>
>> http://hauster.blogspot.nl/2013/05/the-genesis-of-paul-celans-
>> todesfuge.h=
> tml
>>
>> 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 20=
> 0"
>> as suggested by Berti is not too bad. In addition, Paul Celan
>> effected th=
> e
>> 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 a=
> nd
>> 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 poe=
> ts
>> Celan, Wei=C3=9Fglas, Ausl=C3=A4nder, 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 Germa=
> n
>> - 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 t=
> o
>> add your comments to the posting as well.
>>
>>
>> Edgar Hauster
>> Lent - The Netherlands
>
>
>
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