Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan

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30.06.2011

Herzzeit, the correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, has now been published in six languages. We are proud to present the translations that have been published so far. More translations are currently being prepared for publication.
 

Translation rights have been sold to:
English world rights (Seagull, 2010),
Spanish world rights (Fondo Cultura),
Russia (Ad marginem),
Arabic world rights (Diwan Al Masar),
France (Seuil),
Italy (Nottetempo, 2010),
Netherlands (Meulenhoff, 2010),
Denmark (Vandkunsten),
Sweden (Ellerstrøms),
Korea (Munhakdongne),
Japan (Seidosha, 2011),
Poland (A5, 2010),
Czech Republic (Pulchra),
Bulgaria (Ciela),
Romania (Art, 2011),
Turkey (Turkuvaz),
Ukraine (Knihy XXI),
Georgia (Ibis),
Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad)

For more information on Herzzeit, please visit the authors' Foreign Rights websites or contact the respective Rights Manager.


Paul Celan was born on 23 November 1920 as Paul Antschel, the sole son of German-speaking Jewish parents in the then Romanian city of Czernowitz. After completing school in 1938, he began studying medicine in Tours, France, but returned to Romania a year later to complete a degree in Romance studies. In 1942, Celan’s parents were deported to a labour camp. In the autumn of that year, his father died of typhoid, and his mother was shot. Between 1942 and 1944, Celan was made to do forced labour in several Romanian camps. From 1945 to 1947 he worked as an editor and translator in Bucharest and began to publish his first poems. In 1948, he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death. That same year, he met Ingeborg Bachmann, and in 1951, Celan met the artist Gisèle de...

Paul Celan was born on 23 November 1920 as Paul Antschel, the sole son of German-speaking Jewish parents in the then Romanian city of Czernowitz....

Ingeborg Bachmann was born on June 25, 1926 in Klagenfurt. She first rose to prominence as a poet after reading her work at a gathering of the legendary Gruppe 47. She went on to publish two collections of poetry, Die gestundete Zeit (1953) and Anrufung des Großen Bären (1956), along with numerous radio plays, essays, and short story collections. In 1971, she published her only completed novel, Malina. Bachmann passed away on 17 October 1973 in Rome.
 

Ingeborg Bachmann was born on June 25, 1926 in Klagenfurt. She first rose to prominence as a poet after reading her work at a gathering of the...


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