Professor David Peimer
Paul Celan - The Jewish Poet of WWII
Summary
David Peimer discusses the life and poetry of Paul Celan (1920–1970) , a post-World War II Romanian poet who experienced the Holocaust. He delves into Celan’s background, the challenges of expressing the unspeakable through language, and the impact of Celan’s iconic poem, “Death Fugue,” which is compared to Picasso’s “Guernica”.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.