Celan is regarded as one of the most important figures in German-language literature of the post- World War II era and a poet whose verse has gained an immortal place in the literary pantheon.

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 …

Paul Celan 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.

Aug 14, 2025 · This article introduces 15 of Paul Celan’s most famous poems. Each poem is presented with context and explanation to help readers understand its meaning and significance.

Paul Celan was a German language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Chernivtsy, Ukraine, and adopted the pseudonym Paul Celan. He became …

LAST YEAR marked the centennial of the birth of Paul Celan, who wrote some of the most potent and haunting poetry of the 20th century. Celan—born Paul Antschel in Czernowitz, Romania …

Unwilling to live under Russian domination, or the communism towards which Romania moved in the 1940s, Celan moved first to Vienna, the one-time capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire, …

From Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris. Used with the permission of the translator.

(Paul Antschel; 1920–1970), poet. Considered one of the most important post–World War II European poets, Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz, in Bucovina, the easternmost province of …

May 22, 2025 · Paul Celan is one of the most important German-language poets of the 20th century. Born in 1920 in Czernowitz, a town in Romania, Celan lived through one of the …