Paul Celan’s Lover Emerges From the Shadows
The Suhrkamp Verlag series of the great Romanian-born Jewish poet Paul Celan’s letters has received worldwide attention. Among the avid readers was an 81-year-old Austrian-born historian of anthropology, Britta Rupp-Eisenreich, long resident in France, where she publishes on ethnology and related subjects. Eisenreich recently decided to speak up about her own secret nine-year love affair,…