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 pen name. In …

Nov 19, 2025 · 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.

Celan—born Paul Antschel in Czernowitz, Romania (now part of Ukraine) in 1920—lived a life scarred by personal and historical tragedy. In 1942, his parents were taken to a Nazi concentration camp, …

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 one of the major …

Paul Celan, a German-speaking Romanian-born poet, is considered one of the most significant figures in 20th-century literature. Known for his deeply emotional and complex poetry, his works often …

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 darkest periods in …

Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (the pseudonymous adopts an anagram of his surname in Romanian, Ancel) (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), …

Paul Celan was born within the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Bukovina, "a region inhabited by people and books" (Celan, quoted in Chalfen, p. 4) in Czernowitz (now Chernovtsy, Ukraine); along …

During the 1960s, Celan published more than six books of poetry and gained international fame. In addition to his own poems, he remained active as a translator, bringing out works from writers such …