From threshold to threshold
Von Schwelle zu Schwelle is a volume of poetry by Paul Celan published in 1955 .
Content and structure
The volume, published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in Stuttgart , contains 47 poems that were written in Paris between 1952 and 1954 . It is dedicated to Gisèle Celan-Lestrange and divided into three cycles, which are entitled Seven Roses later (18 poems), With changing key (16 poems) and Inselhin (14 poems).
First cycle: seven roses later
- I heard say
- In the late red
- to shine
- Together
- Playing with axes
- The heavy
- A grain of sand
- Strand
- From the sea
- Duality
- Distant
- Where there is ice
- From dark to dark
- In the shape of a boar
- Breton beach
- Well
- To two
- The guest
Second cycle: with a different key
- Gravestone for Francois
- Grafted onto the eye
- Who counted the hours for us
- Assisi
- Tonight too
- In front of a candle
- With a changing key
- Here
- Still life
- And the beautiful
- Woody
- Evening of words
- The dump
- I know
- The fields
- souvenir
Third cycle: Inselhin
- Pursed at night
- Eye of time
- Wing night
- Which of the stones you lift
- In memoriam Paul Eluard
- Shibboleth
- We see you
- cenotaph
- You speak too
- With red lips
- Argumentum e silentio
- The winemakers
- Island way
Expenses (selection)
- First edition: From threshold to threshold. Poems. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1955.
- Tübingen edition: From threshold to threshold. Preliminary stages - text genesis - final version. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 3-518-41371-6
Web links
- Paul Celan reads the poem Assisi from the volume of poems Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (youtube video)