Claire Goll

Claire Goll (born Clara Aischmann ) ( born October 29, 1891 in Nuremberg, † May 30, 1977 in Paris) was a German - French writer and journalist and the wife of the poet Yvan Goll.

Life and work

In 1911, Clara married Aischmann the later publisher Heinrich Studer and lived with him in Leipzig. In May 1912, her daughter Dorothea Elisabeth ( called Dora Lies) Studer was born. In 1916 she emigrated as a pacifist in Switzerland, where she studied at the University of Geneva, became involved in the peace movement and began working as a journalist. In 1917 she met the poet Yvan Goll know. The end of 1918 she had an affair with Rainer Maria Rilke, with whom she was on friendly terms until his death.

In 1918, her first book of poems contemporary world and the story collection The women seemed to awaken. With Yvan Goll 1919 she went to Paris, where they both got married in 1921. In 1926 she published her first novel The Negro Jupiter robbed Europe. Your stories, poems and novels have appeared in French language. Your books of poetry Poèmes d' amour (1925 ), Poèmes de la jalousie (1926) and Poèmes de la vie et de la mort she wrote with her husband as antiphonal singing of love.

Claire and Yvan Goll (both were of Jewish origin) fled in 1939 at the beginning of World War II the Nazis into exile in New York. It was not until 1947 they returned to Paris, where Yvan Goll died in 1950.

After the death of Yvan Goll, Claire Goll increasingly devoted to her husband's work - which they manipulated texts and data falsified. Your autobiographical novels The Stolen Heaven ( 1962) and Dream Dancer (1971 ) found little attention. For quite a stir on the other hand made ​​her argument with Paul Celan, known as " Goll affair". Claire Goll threw Celan before, he had Yvan Goll plagiarized, which turned out to be untrue.

For a certain sensation also ensured Claire Goll's memoirs I forgive anyone. A literary Chronique scandaleuse our time (La Poursuite du Vent, 1976). Goll died in 1977 and was buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris; her grave stone bears a drawing by Marc Chagall. Since her death also devote increasingly literary scholar and historian her estate.