{"id":3236,"date":"2022-02-05T19:51:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T09:39:41","slug":"antschel-a-film-about-paul-celan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/antschel-a-film-about-paul-celan\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTSCHEL – A Film about Paul Celan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film Essay (45\u00b4)
\n<\/em>TV Austrian Broadcasting Station II 2020
\nLiteraVision Television Prize\u00a0 2022<\/strong><\/span>
\nBy Susanne Ayoub (Director+Screenplay+Camera)<\/em>
\nwith Klaus Demus (narrator)<\/em>
\nand Katharina Knap (spoken word)
\nOriginal German Version.<\/em><\/p>\n

Translations exist in English, French, Ukrainian, and Romanian.<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Celan was from the Bukovina, \u201cthe former Habsburg province that has now fallen victim to the loss of history,\u201d as he put it. He was born in 1920 in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) to a German-speaking Jewish family. The locales of his childhood no longer existed after the Nazi terror. His family was murdered, and he himself was persecuted and imprisoned in a work camp. He escaped death only by good fortune. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Paul Celan’s passport photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAntschel\u201d deals with a homeland in language, the language that was Paul Celan\u2019s only place of refuge.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was this one thing amidst the losses that remained attainable, nearby, not lost: language.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

The film is a \u201clandscape film.\u201d City views\u2014pictures from the past\u2014turn up again in present-day Czernowitz. A trip to Sadagora, where Celan\u2019s mother was from, leads to the synagogue and the Jewish cemetery. <\/em>
\nCelan\u2019s path through postwar Vienna. His identity card as a Jewish refugee.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t stay long. I didn\u2019t find what I had hoped to find.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Susanne Ayoub with Klaus Demus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n
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They drank dry the eyes of the seeing \u2013 from \u201cThe Jugs\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is a landscape film in another sense as well: it visually interprets linguistic images from Celan\u2019s poems.<\/em><\/p>\n

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‘\u201cThink of me as someone you want to need, as I think of you, Paul, with all my might. \u2013 Yours, Klaus\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The narrator of the film is Klaus Demus, now 93 years old. He met Celan through Ingeborg Bachmann in Vienna and stayed connected to him for a lifetime.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dedication to “Klaus , my brother.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe only way you can understand poetry is poetically. If you ask what it really means, you haven\u2019t understood what poetry is. Because what it really means is probably ineffable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Le Pont Mirabeau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Translation Geoffrey C. Howes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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