As part of the Festival les Traversées du Marais, marking the publication of Paul Celan’s Poèmes de Czernowitz (1938-1945), a bilingual edition translated, introduced and annotated by Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Seuil, 2026
During the war, Romania, an ally of Nazi Germany, pursued a violently antisemitic policy. The young Celan, born in 1920 in Czernowitz, whose population was half German-speaking Jewish, was deported to various labor camps, while his parents were murdered at the Mikhaïlovka camp in 1942. Celan managed to survive thanks to support from many people, particularly his partner and friend Ruth Kraft, who played an essential role in the creation and preservation of these early texts, conceived and written at the heart of the Holocaust by a prodigious poet whose work would remain haunted until the end by the destruction of Europe’s Jews. Poems read in German and French by Odile Cohen, actress, and Daniel Kenigsberg, actor. Post-performance discussion with Bertrand Badiou, lecturer and researcher at the ENS and specialist in the work of Paul Celan. Book now
Price: Price: €3 to €5 Reduced price for 18–25-year-olds and seniors (proof of eligibility required) Free admission for jobseekers, students and those under 18 (proof of eligibility required)
Source: paris.fr — photo: Portrait Paul Celan ©DR