Re: [Cz-L] Stadt der toten Dichter

Dear Mimi,

thank you for translating, it is indeed a nice article.

Iosif

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> Dear Iosif,
>
> Thank you very much for bringing this article to our attention.
> It gave me great pleasure to read it and because so many of
> the members of this list do not read German,
> I will translate some paragraphs:
>
> A trip to Czernowitz, Ukrainian Chernivtsi, starts in one's own library.
> Hardly any other provincial city has produced so many poets and
> thinkers as the old capital of the Bukovina: The lyricists Paul Celan
> and Rose Auslander, the famous biochemist and essayist
> Erwin Chargaff were born here, the authors Karl Emil Franzos
> and Mihai Eminescu as well as the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich
> went to school here. Not without reason, is the city at the Pruth
> designated as "The city of the dead poets".
>
> The city in the south-west of the country is a myth, a lost world.
> Its former atmosphere, formed by the mixture of various languages
> and cultures, can currently be found mostly in books, stories and poems,
> inhabited by a type of Nostalgia. And this despite the fact that the walls
> of the city have mostly outlasted the storm of the second World War.
>
> ........ The rise of Czernowitz from a far-flung provincial town
> to a multiethnic city, happened at a rapid pace and came to an end
> only with the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian double monarchy.
>
> Already in the 18th century, Czernowitz got a school, a post office
> and even a coffee-house, soon afterwards - a civil hospital, hotels and
> stores.
> If the number of inhabitants was relatively small in 1857 - about 22 000
> people,
> by the eve of the First World War, the number had risen to 90 000 people.
> At the same time, the Jewish population rose to be a third of the total.
>
> I will translate more tomorrow,
>
> Mimi
>
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:10 PM, iosif vaisman wrote:
>
> Yet another Czernowitz travelog:
>
> Georg Christoph Heilingsetzer, "Eine versunkene Welt – der Mythos von
> Czernowitz", Die Welt, 12.01.2013
> (http://www.welt.de/reise/staedtereisen/article112703923/Eine-versunkene-Welt-der-Mythos-von-Czernowitz.html)
>
> Iosif
>
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