Poppy seeds and memory

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
First edition (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1952)

Poppy and Memory is a volume of poetry by Paul Celan published in 1952 .

Content and structure

The volume, published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in Stuttgart , contains 56 poems, including the death fugue and the Corona dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann , two of the author's most famous and most cited. The title Mohn und Gedächtnis is taken from a line from Corona , which like many of the poems in the volume dates from Celan's time in Vienna .

After Celan had his first volume of poems, Der Sand aus den Urnen, published by A. Sexl in Vienna in 1948 , crushed due to typographical errors, most of the poems collected in it were recorded in Poppy and Memory and form the first of four sections in which the volume is structured. The poem Death Fugue , which was also included in The Sand from the Urns , forms the second section; the remaining sections are headed against light and straws of the night .

Expenses (selection)

Mohn und Gedächtnis was reprinted several times, most recently in 2012 in a bibliophile edition based on the equipment of the first edition. In 2004 the so-called Tübingen edition was published by Suhrkamp-Verlag , which contains the preliminary stages and text genesis of the poems.

  • First edition: Poppy seeds and memory. Poems. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1952.
  • Tübingen edition: Poppy and memory. Preliminary stages - text genesis - final version. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41583-2 .
  • Bibliophile new edition: Poppy seeds and memory. Poems. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04550-8 .

Web links