Der „verlorenen Schar“ auf der Spur. Äquivalenzen und Überarbeitungen in den Gedichten von Immanuel Weißglas. Versuch einer Interpretation (I)
On the Trail of the “Lost Crowd”. Equivalences and Revisions in the Poems of Immanuel Weißglas. Attempt at Interpretation (I)

Summary/Abstract: The fact that the poet from Chernivtsi, Immanuel Weissglas, reworked, revised and resumed many of his poems in later volumes became an object of study relatively late, also due to his placement in the “shadow” of Paul Celan. His three volumes, Kariera am Bug, the unpublished volume Gottes Mühlen in Berlin and Nobiskrug, however, contain multiple examples of these variations of the original works, the poems being modified, quoted or changed to different degrees. A valuable starting point for studies on this topic is represented by Barbara Wiedemanns list of these equivalents and their type. This article aims to analyze the similarities and overlaps between the first and last volume of Weissglas, while trying to capture the character of these two volumes, possible motivations of Weissglas to maintain his work in a continuous process of transformation, and finding an answer to the question: What has the poem become in its new form?

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