Paul Celan

Born in Czernovitz, Romania, Paul Celan was one of the greatest German poets of post-war era. As a Jew, he was interned in a Nazi labour camp until 1943 and his subsequent work was profoundly influenced by his experiences of the Holocaust, in which both his mother and father perished. His best-known poem is "Todesfuge" (1948, "Death Fugue"), which with bleak irony employs a repeating musical refrain to convey the suffering of the deathcamps. Celan published his meticulous, hermetic poems in the collections Sprachgitter (1959) and Die Niemandsrose (1963).

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