Own. There were images he could never escape. No language of a comfort. But postman on was a poet compelled to put the most extreme Human Experience into words. They. Came from does to stand in the shadow of a scar up in the air. When the monk to stand for no one and nothing. On record not just for you alone these are lying. His beginnings had the hallmarks of most beginnings with much hope and little experience existence was not yet reality stricken a cylon was to later describe his life it began in chan of its. He poles the line came into the world as powell and show on november the twenty third one nine hundred twenty. On a visit to chan of it eric salon the poet son and his friend the say lance scholar and publisher tom budd you. Behind these windows the young paul salon devised his own world a world of poetry. His face handsome and thoughtful seems delineated by earnestness he was devoted to his mother fredericka and with whom he shared a profound love of german language literature and music it cemented the bond between mother and son. The devoutly religious father leo uncial was a broker in the timber trade he forced his son to move from a german to a Hebrew School pull suffered under his fathers orthodoxy poetry not prayer was his native element. Chant of it halfway between kiev and bucharest krakow and odessa was the secret capital of europe where the pavements were swept with bouquets of roses and which had more bookshops them bakeries. Ceylon and his friends reveled in the ideals of romanticism and anarchy on the banks of the river put they met to hold readings and sing as a provocation Russian Revolutionary songs ceylon was attention seeking congenial and cocky and at this age enjoyed clowning around but the poems he would come to write reveal a different sensibility. Due. To reserve the poems from nine hundred thirty eight nine hundred thirty nine the poems got darker you have to remember that war was declared on september nineteenth thirty nine. From that moment on his poetry was overshadowed by the events of the time. I would even say that the shadow of these advance had been cast on his life even earlier. We know that from a letter to was promised and i mean every three. In it he laments the anti semitism you experienced in his school. Shows a keen awareness of the situation and of what was already happening in germany. So his poetry has a melancholy tone from the start its dominated by melancholy of course not as charged as it would be later a melancholy that recalls for that village you know. His poetry was an early seismograph but in real life and for the wide world not sensibility in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he moved to front to begin medical studies into the approaching dangerous still seemed far away freight cars were still only freight cars. But soon the violence ate its way through the nazis were already in vienna on his way to to a salon wrote high above the crows will they soon hear the stars coming stars that fall and a small load up by the darkness. One star would glow a yellow one invented by the darkness. Ceylon had embarked on his long journey on the nights of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the train stopped in berlin on the morning after the christan art program he would later write in a poem. You came at the station you caught sight of smoke that was already from tomorrow. Onwards to paris pulse and spent a week in the french capital. The charmer from the city on the prophet spent his nights rambling through mamata. Unaware that later as an operative man he would search here for a new homeland. Oh gust rodins thinker the figure appears to be brooding over the rationality of mankind the sculptures in rodins the gates of hell are descending into the abyss its a depiction of what say man was to attempt in his work to put a voice to the silence of the dead and tormented after hour shits. While rodin takes us through the gates of hell same man stands in the shadow of the scar in the horror of the century that claud itself into memory the poet pleaded with language for words to claw at the terrible world as he put it words that could establish their own world beyond. No matter what he wrote ultimately he could only legitimize it with his own despair only those who have lost the world can understand its troops. At the magnet. Is chain it is. The sign no you you are the deeply bowed. Is by the trans pierced im subject to you. Or where flames a word would bear witness for both. Sides to. You. All real. Is all delusion grounds. Buku veena the land of beech trees is the region of porcelains with its stately ancient trees. But beneath the foliage the merciless march of time. The outbreak of World War Two prevented salons return to tour in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine first the soviets occupied the town after the Hitler Stalin pact in one nine hundred forty one remaining entered an alliance with nazi germany from then on salon like the other jews of the town had to wear a yellow star. In an active bearing he hated it in the main park where jews were not allowed. It was the end of chain of it says rich jewish life. Tens of thousands were deported. Spent eighteen months in a forced labor camp. His parents were transported to the concentration camp his father died there of typhus in autumn one nine hundred forty two. His mother was executed by a shot in the neck. Later ceylon would write aspen tree plans white into the dark my mothers head was never white my mothers heart was ripped by lead the death of his parents set the direction for cylons poetry. For salon the liberators were just another set of occupiers in one nine hundred forty four the red army of it renewed deportations raised to new fears in him he saw a double curse first that the new rulers could not rule without subjugating others and then the hated flags of the nazis lying everywhere in the dirt. In his nightmares he could see them waving again. He had to get out after two years in bucharest salon reached vienna in one nine hundred forty seven the city so admired by his mother that he had to the jackboots was stamping in the rhythm that was familiar from chan of it. And back plats the memorial to the soviet soldier with his gilded shield. But knife in the austrian capital began to show itself again from its buoyant hopeful side. In vienna salon contacted the literary magazine plan it printed seventeen of his poems they formed part of his First Published volume of poetry the sand from the. Cafe rhyme and became a favorite haunt although he disliked that distinctive viennese brand of commute kite with its pastries and waltzes. Ceylon made ties to the literary scene in this cafe he met a group of young writers led by viennas literary dorian hans vika. Ceylon attracted attention for instance with these verses written like a darkly plaintive exchange with his mother. Still do the southerly waters know mother the wave whose blows wounded you so. Still does the field with those windmills remember how gently your heart to its angel surrendered cannot of the aspens and none of the willows allow you the solace remove all your sorrows. In vienna risen from the ruins to return to its old gay ity he met in the book but. It was the beginning of a dreamy and desperate affair between the daughter of an austrian nazi and a state list from eastern europe. You have reason to. Doubt if my many of his poems are pervaded by the dimensions of love and eroticism expressed through the amorous do form of the pronoun you you dont see this do encompasses all kinds of identities hes speaking to all kinds of women in a certain fashion the favorite person addressed in salons poetry is feminine. I think in the passage much later in the poem he wrote for a longish. Stunt where he writes india i stand in you. Dear uncertain for so. He thought in a certain way he places the reader in a passive position. At first the reader simply receives satans image but the reader can also become active with his language the whole may only fit in thought. But there is a stance in the language of say. Which gives special importance to the family and then after the first so yeah. Then it was time for say learn to move on. He left fianna fail paris arriving on july the thirteen its nine hundred forty eight one day before the grand parade celebrating the national holiday. Why paris the answer is simple. Because vino was now soviet territory romania a communist state austria marred by hypocrisy germany out of the question. I sing before strangers ceylon wrote a Rundown Hotel room became his home for nearly five years stateless jobless propertyless and as a poet nameless. He struggled to make a living as a manual laborer and interpreter and began studies at the sorbonne paris was beautiful but so long was lonely. He plunged into the twilight of the basement clubs it was the liberating time of janice. Believe it. Was. Then another woman stepped into his life it was. An art student she was the daughter of an heiress to critic family that had remained silent during the German Occupation she was disowned by her parents. In herat she too sought to find expression for human forms of existence in the poll salon courtyard of berlins Jewish Museum is a flaw released by list the lines are like bodies with movements frozen into crystal splinters. Whole and married in one nine hundred fifty two. She already had an inkling of what lay ahead it must be very difficult to love a poet a beautiful poet. In the millions in them too so for my mother was a marvelous lady who was all she was very committed very rebellious. And very loving that. And her entire work is strongly beland up with my fathers poetry. So no it was there is a kind of dialogue between the two of them. On. Levy for my parents there was no separation between life and artistic creation. It arose from the same movement. And. My mother always fought to support my father to enable them to write music to get him out of the clinic after his hospitalization the salty a little bit. This be teles as you. We know. My father had High Expectations of me. He was very concerned about my School Results which were not always a very good thing. There was always this disquiet with my father. When he became ill his sense of agitation increased and became. President. I was supposed to write frequent letters to my father my mother took pity on me and she dictated the letters to me. She always tried to keep my father calm. Me up was because when he was ill the slightest war he could trigger something bad and delusional. And. Name doff on germanys baltic coast. In one nine hundred fifty two steeled himself and ventured a visit to germany a place he associated with fear his landscape of fear. At the invitation of the influential Literary Association the group forty seven he read death. With its image of the black milk of daybreak a metaphor for his amount about hopelessness after auschwitz. The members of the group forty seven who included form of them soldiers were setting the new literary agenda in postwar west germany say man had hoped for understanding but he found. Instead. He met in the book bomb and again she had suggested he come she had wanted to help him but it was a fiasco. For so long on writing was a way of remembering the dead death few was a kind of tombstone for his mother. And now it was being mocked. Blackmailed daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night and we drink and we drink it we talk a great in the breeze as i want to rise unconfined. So lucky milk of daybreak away tricky with night we drink he would have known death is a master from germany we drink and in the morning we drink and we drink you yes death is a monster from germany his eyes are blue he strikes you with letter and bullets his ai is true. You know. The members of the group forty seven prided themselves on their hard radical judgments but salon was struck by an act of particular heartlessness later he said i. I had hoped some of the writers would descend into the depths with themselves but what did they talk about soccer. And heartlessly they passed judgment he reads like good bulls so one less not another spoke of sing song like in a synagogue nobody tried to show any understanding for salon the experience in named of embodied the essence of the young new west germany impunity for nazis careers for officials of the third reich not sensitivity but hostility. In hamburg a group of women standing around to run over dog and called out yes for a dog cry. He never attended another meeting of the group forty seven but he continued to give readings of death he sought to carry on a dialogue with german audience is the poem was a kind of overture. Of daybreak we drink you at night we drink in the morning at noon we drink what sundown we drink and we drink you lives in the house he plays with us he writes he writes when task force to germany. Your passion has. A grave in the breezes that one lies one can find. So learn traveled to tubingen not to read but to speak. To friedrich heard in a brother poet whose verse declined to conform to the frightful outside world. Salon visited the tower where her dylan lived a reclusive life for more than thirty years. He visited her dylans grave. To bring in january is the title of cylons poem about the highest possible goal to protect a language from lies better to stammer and babble than to punch card vocabulary came came back a man came into the world today. With a patriarchs. If he spoke of this time he could only. How to recognize the landscape of fear not by the look of it cities. In one nine hundred fifty seven seen on gave a reading in stuttgart the audience was expectant but one person left slamming the door behind him. From outside the noise of a motorcycle revving up. To see the one who left out way to sounds and egolessness his mistrust was not only justified it also sought justification. Hed found the evening salon described a stroll through a cemetery in prague the memory of the dead wisp is the way only silence can tell the truth. And. To stand. Up in the. Need to stand for no one and nothing. Recognized for you. With all that has room for in that. Without language. But there was an orderly appeasing force in say lands life every day life as a family his pleasure in his first proper apartment the prospect of a job as a lecturer for translation and in one thousand nine hundred fifty five his son eric was born. In one nine hundred fifty eight in the box bomb on first day and on the situation she suffered over seeing on but she pulled back saying you mustnt abandon your wife and child ceylon later said she expected much from me and i disappointed her only friendship was possible but love remained and found expression in an intimate exchange of letters. Ceylon had always had women who encouraged him like nelly sachs a poet a jew a Kindred Spirit you all pull the pure human so the world cannot be old outness. She visited him in paris in one nine hundred sixty to pull him out of his delusions of persecution but his trauma was too deep and new fuel was added to the fire. In april nine hundred sixty the small munich literary magazine kuwait published plagiarism accusations by claire god and the widow of the poet yvonne god. Tried to comfort say land but comfort was impossible he saw it as yet another attempt to destroy him and his poetry. The cafe au lait doom i go on the bill of us. Here. Salon and nelly sachs chanced to run into the painter max and he didnt notice them which salon viewed as a deliberate a from to gainst to jews lets go see hina they said. For a long time the two stood at heinrich chinas grave she the tormented one who sought reconciliation in the name of life he the tormented one who needed to remain tormented in the name of the dead but whose poems repeatedly sought a you. Need to deal with masts afterward the sky rex drive. Through this woods song hold fast with your teeth. Other song fast pen and. I and the song fast pen and the support salon had. They spent a deliberate weeks at the seaside brittany was a beautiful break from reality that calmed salon for a time by now he was a well known poet soon to receive the deal usually a prize but he needed constant support to help him cope with the field day the press was having with the plagiarism accusations and with the critical assessments of his work that say none interpreted as anti semitism. He described this happy time with as always and never. Yeah and not far from their vacation spot in time was a man here a long upright celtic stone. Standing in front of it visitors sense that time is nothing and eternity is ole. Its a line with later right grey shaped eyeless you stone gays with which the earth came forward to us humanly. As if a stone had more heart than mankind and stones proved how true that was. Ceylon went to our door through the land in one nine hundred forty four the s. S. Murdered all the residents of the village in an active retribution these people intended for a singular never to be repeated life extinguished with such arbitrariness. One sort painful casts itself over ceylon wrote. Only that which was mao treated could tell the truth only that which was a mood and could see the truth lies that all. Grey excavated steep ceilings. I mean land strewn here and about doing grass blows apart and over the smoke of the wells. In the how far. Or near destroying ted leaves drops. Oh and i cut into stripes and does justice to all. The other. In the one nine hundred sixty s. And im himself went through the gates of hell he wrote i see myself most emphatically push to my limits to my nowhere he suffered fits of paranoia he was hospitalized prescribed psychiatric medication he stabbed himself with a knife just missing his heart his condition lurched from one low point to the next. Minute you know the confrontation with my fathers Mental Illness when i was very young was a very disturbing and brutal experience. And it was so wrong to turn my mother was the one who very early on. American men in language appropriate to my age. And with very differentiated words. Explain to me what the Mental Illness was feeling and what was going on. After several hospitalizations a ray of hope in one nine hundred sixty seven ceylon gave a reading in freiburg the city in southwestern germany is closely associated with the philosopher Martin Heidegger who had been an enthusiastic nazi later he remained publicly silent when questioned about his views now heidegger was to meet the poet of the holocaust. In the spring of one thousand nine hundred eighty three soon after the nazis came to power intoxicated by the mood sweeping germany was elected rector of the university of freiburg. Here salon now read to an audience of more than a sows and the philosopher sat in the front row what did he feel. In freiburg to ceylon encountered the traces of the terrible past here a lost coat commemorates the deportation of the citys jewish residents. The strong has been scratched. The day after the reading salon and went to the black forest to the philosophers camp and they completed the last part of the journey on foot what did they expect from one another two men joined by their love of language and of hurdle in. Two lives that could hardly have been more different later heidegger said we kept silent over many singers. To this day the meeting in the cabin near top now back remains a subject of much speculation heidegger was familiar with sans works the poet knew the philosopher. That heidegger expected gesture of forgiveness did ceylon want a confession of guilt. In the guest book he wrote in the cabin book with a view of the well stocked with the hope for a coming word in the heart. Did the star shake crowning the well appeared to him like a star of david did the leaves in the well recalled his roots in the covina. Salon wrote later i wanted him to speak to me i wanted to forgive him in the poem bag he took up the lines he wrote in the guest book. The line inscribed in that book about a hope today of a thinking mans coming word in the heart. He hoped in vain. Yes salons only thoughts could not be reassured his visit to berlin in december nine hundred sixty seven became a trip to the heart of darkness he went to the starting point of the violence the place where death a master from germany did his work railway car by railway calm. And high to bahnhof this was the station where thirty years earlier he had stopped on his journey to paris the day after the christan after. Go to the butchers hooks he was to write in a poem salon went to put susie where so many opponents of the nazi regime where executed. Undaunted he continued his tour of the topography of terra. Go to the play to the harford he went to the land of the canal into which the body of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was thrown. After her brutal murder in one nine hundred nineteen. Thanks. Walking through a holiday fun fair his no gave out. If we clowned seemed to be nothing at him every shout reinforced his fear. And every color was a mile away. Earlier in one nine hundred sixty seven ceylon had moved out of the familys apartment she says request he had also attacked her with a knife in his letters to her he invoked a love that he called straight jacket beautiful. So look more defeated know. Your letters are a remarkable document. Because they reflect a certain side of still on. An image that he draws of himself and that doesnt exist in other correspondence. But yes he had an unusual relationship to his wife he. Had held very last week on nine hundred fifty one thousand nine hundred seventy s. With us. Who sit. In this exchange of letters gives us a very truthful look at the essence of their relationship. And you sense an extreme caution in just as letters during the period of his hospitalizations. Every word is weighed carefully so as not to wound him or burden them they are the only thought well but at the same time you sense or unconditional solidarity absolutely nothing in the periods of separation. Even after his are can no longer live with them after two suicide attempts and that. Thats wrong. Reading the letter is all this is expressed in a very shy indirect manner. Nothing is said in a direct manner. And in this sense the correspondence is extremely interesting. Because it forms an inversion of reality. Takes place at the other side of existence of their duties to look at. The student for better paris in one nine hundred sixty eight books than on out onto the streets. He spoke of an uprising of the downtrodden but the violence upsets him. Thanks so did the sight of soviet tanks in prague for socialism and revolution with the fight against humiliation and debasement. He dedicated a poem to his son eric hourglass fills up with silk we stand. As its a share of i was very proud when my father walked with me along this and. Theyve been saying revolutionary songs to me in every possible language. Here. That was also the period when he was sort of giving me my political education. Pfeffer money because. He told me about the Russian Revolution but the seizure of power by the authoritarian communists. Well. That was probably the time when he spoke to me about his political views his proximity to the and our guests of course because a nationalist is and i she said the individual list and marcus. Nebbiolo have. Made me read kropotkin biography. The new and he gave me a small volume with excerpts of texts by back when he wanted me to read that kind of literature i had to go. He again moved to another apartment. Salon wrote what remains is solitude. In a last attempt to find a place to call home salon traveled to israel in one nine hundred sixty nine he met up with members of the chant of its association. But he felt like a stranger among his old friends and acquaintances. He sensed there mistrust. He was the poet who wrote in the language of the murderous. He called his jewishness the only thing that i still acknowledge in the rubble of my existence my thoughts of israel my fears for israel. The two hundredth anniversary of jose lynns birth in march one nine hundred seventy in the lead a hollow auditorium got ceylon read from his book lists for light compulsion which had not yet appeared the poems were inaccessible to the audience he read like a person inflicting violence on himself. Every day i must descend into my abyss is he had written to a friend there where there is no light compulsion perhaps as holden experienced it in his tower salon went to visit that tower again and sent a postcard with the word standing a greeting from a man standing at the brink. Not merely the eyes the soul to seeks images that are kindred to it. For salon the ease in hyme all to peace in coma was a mirror of all his tormented experience all is wounded all is in pain. The seams reminded him of the suffering of his parents. Leaving the museum he said it is enough. In a biography of her dylan salon underlined a passage by claimants brentano sometimes this genius turns dark and sinks down into the bitter while of his heart. Presumably in the Early Morning of april the twentieth nine hundred seventy. Ended his own life. He drowned himself in the senate probably at the home a rebel. No more light compulsion. My father had been missing from his home for some time. One day my mother came to me and said i have terrible news to tell you. You can conclude from that she said that my father had committed suicide. And that hed been found in the saying somehow i wasnt entirely surprised because it was something that i had already foreseen. Because of the opposition. The poet was buried at the t. A. A. Cemetery on the outskirts of paris. 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