Summary: | "Erinnerungen an Paul Celan" [a briefer version appeared in "Argumentum e silentio" (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1987)], contain memoirs of the author's friendship with the poet dating from their common childhood and youth in Czernowitz. Corrects misconceptions about Celan's experiences during the Holocaust (for a while he found shelter with the author's family) and the fate of his parents. Pp. 7-39, "Paul Celan im Kontext der Bukowiner Dichtung" [a briefer version appeared in "Die Bukowina" (Tübingen: Francke, 1990)], and pp. 71-88, "'Huhediblu': Versuch einer Deutung" [appeared in "Literatur für Leser" 2 (1988)] discuss, in part, poems on the Holocaust and antisemitism.
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