Paul Celan - Wikipedia Paul Celan ( ˈsɛlæn ; [1] German: [ˈtseːlaːn]; born Paul Antschel; 23 November 1920 – c 20 April 1970) was a German-speaking Romanian [2] poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator
Paul Celan | Biography, Poems, Books, Todesfuge, Death - Britannica Paul Celan (born November 23, 1920, Cernăuți, Romania [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]—died April 20?, 1970, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born poet who, though he never lived in Germany, gave the post-World War II literature of that country one of its most powerful and regenerative voices
Paul Celan | The Poetry Foundation Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel in Czernovitz, Romania, to a German-speaking Jewish family His surname was later spelled Ancel, and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his pen name In 1938 Celan went to Paris to study medicine, but returned to Romania before the outbreak of World War II
Celan at 100 | Jewish Currents Celan—born Paul Antschel in Czernowitz, Romania (now part of Ukraine) in 1920—lived a life scarred by personal and historical tragedy In 1942, his parents were taken to a Nazi concentration camp, where they both died; Celan himself survived eighteen months in a labor camp
Paul Celan - New World Encyclopedia Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author who wrote primarily in German, one of the major European poets of the post-World War II era Celan's poetry is among some of the darkest written in the twentieth century
Celan Biography Paul Celan was born in Czernovitz, in Romania, in 1920 Until 1918, this region of Romania had formed part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, a polyglot amalgam of nations stretching from Austria in the west to the Balkans in the south-east
Paul Celan - Oxford Reference Romanian-born Jewish poet whose works, written in German, evoke the horrors of the Holocaust Celan lost both of his parents during World War II in the German death camps, and he himself was interned in a Romanian labour camp in 1944 These experiences, he felt, left only language intact for him
Paul Celan: Making the Stones Sing - White Fungus Paul Celan is often called the greatest of postwar European poets Barry Schwabsky looks back on Celan's life and work following the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth, and the 50th of his death
About Paul Celan - Academy of American Poets Paul Celan - Paul Antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Celan, was born in Czernovitz (now, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) on November 23, 1920 The son of German-speaking Jews, Celan grew up speaking several languages, including Romanian, Russian, and French