Celan droit univ cezanne biography

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. In his teens, Celan became active in Jewish Socialist organizations and fostered support for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. His earliest known poem is titled Mother's Day At this time Celan secretly began to write poetry.

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In , Celan traveled to Tours , France, to study medicine ; [ 5 ] the Anschluss precluded his study in Vienna, and Romanian schools were harder to get into due to the newly imposed Jewish quota. His journey to France took him through Berlin as the events of Kristallnacht unfolded, and also introduced him to his uncle, Bruno Schrager, who was later among the French detainees murdered at Birkenau.

Following the Soviet occupation of Bukovina in June , deportations to Siberia started. A year later, following the reconquest by Romania, Nazi Germany and the then-fascist Romanian regime brought ghettos , internment, and forced labour see Romania in World War II. In October, the Romanians deported a large number of Jews after forcing them into a ghetto, where Celan translated Shakespeare 's sonnets and continued to write his own poetry.

Before the ghetto was dissolved in the fall of that year, Celan was pressed into labor, first clearing the debris of a demolished post office, and then gathering and destroying Russian books. The local mayor, Traian Popovici , strove to mitigate the harsh circumstances, until the governor of Bukovina had the Jews rounded up and deported, starting on a Saturday night in June Celan hoped to convince his parents to leave the country so as to escape certain persecution.

While Celan was away from home, on 21 June , his parents were taken from their home and sent by train to an internment camp in Transnistria Governorate , where two-thirds of the deportees eventually perished. Celan's father likely perished of typhus and his mother was shot after being exhausted by forced labour. Later that year, after being taken to a labour camp in Romania , Celan received reports of his parents' deaths.

There, he worked briefly as a nurse in the mental hospital.