„es sind / noch Lieder zu singen jenseits / der Menschen“. Perspektiven vom Menschen und Humanismus bei Paul Celan und Erich Fried
„There are / still songs to sing beyond / mankind“ – Perspectives on Humanity and Humanism in Paul Celan and Erich Fried

Summary/Abstract: The poet and humanist Erich Fried conceived a poetical replica of the poem Fadensonnen (Threadsuns) by Paul Celan, after rereading the original poem, following the poet’s death. Through this, he distanced himself critically from Celan’s affirmation that there could be “songs” beyond mankind. The critique of Celan’s poetry and the thinking expressed by Fried gave rise to a series of interpretations on the part of German studies specialists. They considered that Fried did not understand Celan when he reproached him the escapist, nihilist tendencies, even the inhumanity, or when he rejected the hermetic poetry, supposedly disengaged, of the poet from Bucovina. Another perspective was that Fried did not criticise Celan, but the writings about him. The present paper proposes a demonstration that Celan’s poetry and Fried’s interpretation actually reveal two different perspectives on man and humanism, of which one is concrete and engaged (Fried) and the other abstract and influenced by Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of humanism of (Celan).

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