THE ENCOUNTER
Martin Heidegger and Paul Celan in the Schwarzwald forest
Radio France Culture
AUDIO PREVIEW
Virginie Luc, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Stephan Crasneanscki
A RADIO ESSAY BY JEAN-LUC NANCY
ATELIER DE CREATION RADIOPHONIQUE // FRANCE CULTURE
In collaboration with Virginie Luc & Stephan Crasneanscki
Coproduction Soundwalk
Realization France Culture Gilles Mardirossian
A program proposed by Frank Smith and Philippe Langlois
Paul Celan visited Heidegger in 1967, in Todtnauberg, where the philosopher worked, in the Black Forest. The poem written from this meeting and which actually has the name of Todtnauberg, was interpreted in a lot of manners: Celan noted a deception, or something else? What did he want, he, the Jewish German, from the one who clearly would have to denounce the Nazi enterprise but from whom the text about poetry was a major reference for Celan? Jean Luc Nancy thought about this meeting. He’s not looking for conclusions. He leaves his mind free to think, free to answer, free to be lost maybe. It is not only a speech but also a voice of restless resonance.