Immanuel Weissglas

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James Immanuel Weissglas (born March 14, 1920 in Chernivtsi , Greater Romania (now Ukraine ); died May 28, 1979 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian German-speaking poet of Jewish origin and translator.

biography

Like his school friend Paul Celan, Immanuel Weissglas came from a German-speaking Jewish family in Bukovina . Weissglas survived the Romanian camps in Ukraine from 1941 to 1944. He moved to Bucharest after 1945. There he worked as a theater musician, publisher's proofreader and editor and translated literary works from German into Romanian and vice versa.

It was not until 1970 that Weissglas published the poem Er , which has since been regarded in literary studies as one of the sources for Celan's death fugue . Jean Bollack judged: “Celan's fugue of death is an answer to Weissglas' poem, which he knew existed. He rearranges his components without adding any additional elements: they are the same elements, but from which he makes something completely different. "Weissglas saw both poems" deeply anchored in the lyrical consciousness of our time. Parallelisms in no way indicate any priority. "In response to allegations that the parallels were plagiarized by Celan, he turned against the" jackal-like sniffing [...] with the dishonest aim of questioning a poetic appearance with a Hölderlin stamp. "

Works

  • God's mills in Berlin. Poems. Bucharest, 1947.
  • Kariera on the bow. Poems . Bucharest: Cartea Romaneasca, 1947.
  • The Nobiskrug, poems . Bucharest: Kriterion-Verlag, 1972. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-89086-486-0 .
  • Ash Age, collected poems . Aachen: Rimbaud, 1994. (Texts from Bukowina, 2). ISBN 3-89086-923-8 .

Translations and transmissions

  • Vasile Alecsandri: Prince Despot . Historical legend in verse. German by Immanuel Weissglas. Bucharest: Albatros Publishing House, 1973.
  • Vasile Voiculescu: The last conceived sonnets of Shakespeare in the imaginary translation V. Voiculescus . Bilingual edition; German rewrite: Immanuel Weissglas. Bucharest: Albatros Verlag, 1974.

literature

  • George Guțu / Martin A. Hainz / Andrei Corbea-Hoișie (eds.): Change of hours. New perspectives on Alfred Margul-Sperber , Rose Ausländer , Paul Celan , Immanuel Weissglas . I.a. Constance: Hartung-Gorre, 2002. ISBN 3-89649-796-0
  • Helmut Braun (ed.): Chernivtsi. The history of a lost cultural metropolis Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2005 ISBN 386153374X
  • Andrei Corbea-Hoișie, Grigore Marcu, Joachim Jordan (Eds.): Immanuel Weissglas (1920-1979) - Studies on Life and Work Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Konstanz 2010 ISBN 978-3-86628-326-8
  • Claus Stephani : "Green Mother Bukowina". German-Jewish writers from Bukovina. Documentation in manuscripts, books and pictures. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name from April 22nd to June 25th, 2010. House of the German East: Munich, 2010. 48 pp., 9 illustrations. ISBN 978-3-927977-27-3
  • Peter Goßens: Weißglas, Immanuel James. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 538-540.

Web links

Single receipt

  1. ^ Jean Bollack: Poetry against poetry: Paul Celan and literature . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0080-4 , p. 47.
  2. ↑ Paul Celan: Fugue of Death. With a comment by Theo Buck . 2nd Edition. Rimbaud, Aachen 2002. ISBN 3-89086-795-2 , pp. 55-56
personal data
SURNAME Weissglas, Immanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Jon (pseudonym); Weissglas, James Immanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1979
Place of death Bucharest