#sprachgitter

[antigonick]

(If I were like you. If you were like me. Did we not stand under one trade wind? We are strangers.)

—Paul Celan, trans. by Michael Hamburger, excerpt of "Language Mesh [Sprachgitter]", in Sprachgitter

Source: "(Wär ich wie du. Wärst du wie ich. Standen wir nicht Unter einem Passat? Wir sind Fremde.)"

[aschenblumen]

Paul Celan, Reja de lenguaje (sección IV). Traducción de José Luis Reina Palazón.

Herzzeit, es stehn die Geträumten für die Mitternachsziffer. Einiges sprach in die Stille, einiges schwieg, einiges ging seiner Wege. Verbrannt und Verloren waren daheim.

Poema dirigido a Ingeborg Bachmann, a quien conoció el 16 de mayo de 1948 en Viena. Fue escrito el 20 de octubre de 1957, es decir, justo en el momento en que reanudaron su relación amorosa hasta mayo de 1958. En su correspondencia, ellos se identifican como «die Geträumten», los soñados. * Un entrañable detalle anecdótico: durante el tiempo en que se conocieron en Viena, a Paul Celan le gustaba inundar de amapolas la habitación donde vivía Ingeborg Bachmann en Beatrixgasse. La amapola es una de las flores más relevantes del primer libro de Celan, Amapola y memoria (1952), que recoge poemas escritos desde 1945 en Bucarest, Viena y París.

[darkcomedies]

a degree in playwriting or dramaturgy sounds absolutely delightful! are you working on anything particularly exciting now that you want to share?

hi there this is such a sweet and fun question

i don’t like posting about my creative projects on tumblr anymore for a lot of weird reasons so i’m keeping it purposefully vague but things are really exciting right now.

a play of mine is being performed for a second time (this is so thrilling to me) at my college. i’m currently getting it ready to submit to professional stuff, like conventions, workshops, competitions, etc. after in theory it’s able to go through one of those a professor of mine wants to help me get it published. i’ve never taken this step with my writing so i’m nervous and grateful and nervous and happy and also, nervous. (beyond that i always have something i’m actively writing, i write every day and i love it.)

as for dramaturgy, this is a new interest of mine. (kind of? i’ve been doing what was essentially dramaturgy for years just for fun and had no idea.) i took a dramaturgy class last spring and absolutely fell in love with the subject/career. i’m currently putting out feelers at my school and in the community to see if anyone needs a dramaturg so i can have some experience before applying to literary internships after graduating.

idk if playwriting or dramaturgy will be more useful to me when i get my MA, but that’s a little down the line for me.

thank you for this question i had fun with this.

EDIT: the weird reasons above sounds weird so to explain— don’t want people to figure out where i live and go to school, i lose creative steam if i talk too much about my projects outside of just working on them, and my like ideas getting jacked is a genuine fear of mine. i was too vague.

[elizabethanism]

"So

temples still stand.

One star

probably still has light.

Nothing,

nothing is lost."

~ Paul Celan,

“Speech Grid”

*

„Also

stehen noch Tempel.

Ein Stern

hat wohl noch Licht.

Nichts,

nichts ist verloren.“

Paul Celan, Sprachgitter

[arborescences]

CONFIANCE Il y aura encore un œil, étranger, à côté du nôtre : muet sous sa paupière de pierre. Venez, creusez vos galeries ! Il y aura un cil, retourné dans la roche, aciéré par le non-pleuré, le plus fin des fuseaux. Devant vous il est à l'œuvre, comme si, à cause de la pierre, il restait des frères

Paul Celan, in Sprachgitter/Grille de Parole (trad. Martine Broda)

[aschenblumen]

Ninguna voz — un rumor tardío, ajeno a las horas, ofrecido a tu pensamiento, aquí, por fin aquí mismo despierto: un carpelo, como un ojo, profundamente rayado; él resina, no quiere cicatrizar.

Paul Celan, Reja de lenguaje (I) en Obras completas. Traducción de José Luis Reina Palazón.

[finelythreadedsky]

how are you THE funniest and most thorough, thought-provoking person of this webbed site

thank you I try ❤️

[bluestockingbaby]

💌

I enjoy seeing you in my notes, and you have a great sense of art and poetry!