Paul Celan
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Paul Celan was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. He adopted his pen name following the war and resided in France from 1949, becoming a naturalized French ci
Celan in 1938
Celan's grave at the Cimetière de Thiais near Paris
Poem ("Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle") by Paul Celan on a wall in Leiden
Todesfuge
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"Todesfuge" is a German language poem written by the Romanian-born poet Paul Celan probably around 1945 and first published in 1948. It is one of his best-known and often-anthologized poems. Despite c
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…the one he took as his pen name. He also met with the poets Rose Ausländer and Immanuel Weissglas, elements of whose works he reused in his poem "Todesfuge", which first appeared as "Tangoul Morții" ("Death Tango") in a Romanian translation of May 1947. Upon the emergence of the communist regime in Romania…
Mauthausen Concentration camp, 30 June 1942: an orchestra of inmates