Die Niemandsrose

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Die Niemandsrose
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Title page for Die Niemandsrose (1964)
Author Paul Celan
Translators Michael Hamburger (English), John Felstiner (English), Nikolai Popov & Heather McHugh (English), Pierre Joris (English)
LanguageGerman
Publisher S. Fischer Verlag
Publication date
1963
Pages95

Die Niemandsrose (The No-One's Rose) is a 1963 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan, [1] dedicated to the memory of Osip Mandelstam. [2]

Contents

The publication of Die Niemandsrose consolidated Celan's reputation among the most important contemporary poets writing in German. [3] It is included in the first volume of Celan's Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works). [4]

Contents

The poems in the collection are divided into four numbered, untitled sections. [2]

I

II

III

  • Die hellen Steine
  • Anabasis
  • Ein Wurfholz
  • Hawdalah
  • Le Menhir
  • Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle
  • Bei Tag
  • Kermorvan
  • Ich habe Bambus geschnitten
  • Kolon

IV

  • Was geschah?
  • In eins
  • Hinausgekrönt
  • Wohin mir das Wort
  • Les Globes
  • Huhediblu
  • Hüttenfenster
  • Die Silbe Schmerz
  • La Contrescarpe
  • Es ist alles anders
  • Und mit dem Buch aus Tarussa
  • In der Luft

Reception and Translation


In 2020, Pierre Joris published the first complete English translation of Die Niemandsrose in his Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan, a bilingual edition which features complete translations of Celan's first four poetry collections, accompanied by Joris' commentary. [5] Joris had previously published translations of a selection of poems from Die Niemandsrose in his Paul Celan: Selections for the University of California Press' Poets for the Millennium series. [6]

Prior to Joris' complete translation, a number of other translators had published selections from this collection.

From 1967, Michael Hamburger began translating Celan's poetry into English, a project he would continue through five decades. Hamburger's early translations, including selections from Die Niemandsrose, were initially published in various journals of poetry, and first collected in 1972 in his Nineteen Poems by Paul Celan. [7] That same year, Hamburger produced further translations from Die Niemandsrose in his Paul Celan: Selected Poems. [8] Hamburger published an expanded set of translations from Die Niemandsrose in his 1980 Paul Celan: Poems: a Bilingual Edition, with the original German texts and his English translations on facing pages. [9] He expanded this set of facing-page translations further in his 1988 Poems of Paul Celan, noting in his introduction that two pairs of co-translators had also published selections from Celan in the interim. [10] Hamburger continued his project, expanding his translations from Die Niemandsrose again in 2002 [11] , and finally in 2007. [12]

John Felstiner included translations of brief excerpts from Die Niemandsrose in his biography Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew, where he describes Celan's work in this collection as "a Jacob's struggle with the German lexicon." [13] In 2001, Felstiner published translations of a thirty-two poems from the collection in his Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. [14]

Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh jointly translated selections from Die Niemandsrose in their Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, which won a 2001 Griffin Prize. [15]

References

  1. ↑ Kerrel, Sorbel (2003). Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York City: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 212. ISBN   9781579583132.
  2. 1 2 Celan, Paul (1963). Die Niemandsrose. Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag. pp. 93–95. p. Dedication: Dem Andenken Ossip Mandelstamms
  3. ↑ Coetzee, J. M. (5 July 2001). "In the Midst of Losses". The New York Review of Books . 48 (11): 4–8. p. 4: Recognition of his [Celan's] gifts came soon, with the publication of Mohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy and Memory) in 1952. He consolidated his reputation as one of the more important young German-language poets with Sprachgitter (Speech Grille, 1959) and Die Niemandsrose (The No-One's Rose, 1963).
  4. ↑ Celan, Paul (1983). Allemann, Beda; Reichert, Stefan; Bücher, Rudolf (eds.). Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte I. Vol. 1. Suhrkamp Verlag.
  5. ↑ Celan, Paul (2020). Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan, a Bilingual Edition. Translated by Joris, Pierre. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  6. ↑ Celan, Paul (2005). Paul Celan: Selections. Poets for the Millennium. Translated by Joris, Pierre. University of California Press.
  7. ↑ Celan, Paul (1972). Nineteen Poems by Paul Celan. Translated by Hamburger, Michael. Oxford, UK: Carcanet Press.
  8. ↑ Celan, Paul (1972). Paul Celan: Selected Poems. Translated by Hamburger, Michael. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books.
  9. ↑ Celan, Paul (1980). Paul Celan: Poems: a Bilingual Edition. Translated by Hamburger, Michael. Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press. pp. colophon, Inhalt/Contents.
  10. ↑ Celan, Paul (1989). Poems of Paul Celan. Translated by Hamburger, Michael. New York City: Persea Books. pp. colophon, 8–11. p. 31: The present, enlarged collection of my Celan translations has been complemented by two books of translations by other hands. They are 65 Poems, translated by Brian Lynch and Peter Jankowskv, Raven Arts Press, Dublin, 1985; and Last Poems, translated by Katharine Washburn and Margret Guillemin, North Point Press, San Francisco, 1986.
  11. ↑ Celan, Paul (2002). Poems of Paul Celan. Translated by Hamburger, Michael. New York City: Persea Books.
  12. ↑ Celan, Paul (2007). Poems of Paul Celan. Translated by Hamburger, Michael. Greenwich, England: Anvil Press Poetry.
  13. ↑ Celan, Paul (1995). Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew. Translated by Felstiner, John. Yale University Press. pp. 170–171, 197–199.
  14. ↑ Celan, Paul (2001). Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. Translated by Felstiner, John. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. ix–x, 134–211.
  15. ↑ Celan, Paul (2000). Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Translated by Popov, Nikolai; McHugh, Heather. Wesleyan University Press and the University Press of New England.
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