Claire Goll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Claire Goll

writer and journalist

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1890

Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 30-May-1977

Profession: writer, poet, journalist, peace activist

Nationality: France, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Claire Goll

  • Claire Goll (born Clara Aischmann) (29 October 1890 in Nuremberg, Germany – 30 May 1977 in Paris, France) was a German-French writer and journalist; she married the poet Yvan Goll in 1921. In 1911 Goll married the publisher Heinrich Studer (1889–1961) and lived with him in Leipzig.
  • In May 1912 she gave birth to their daughter Dorothea Elisabeth, her only child.
  • In 1916 she emigrated in protest of World War I to Switzerland, where she studied at the University of Geneva, became involved in the peace movement, and began to work as a journalist.
  • In 1917 she and Studer divorced, and she met the poet Yvan Goll, to whom she became engaged.
  • At the end 1918, she had an affair with Rainer Maria Rilke and they remained friends until his death.
  • In 1918 she debuted as a writer with the poetry collection Mitwelt and the novella collection Die Frauen erwachen.
  • In 1919, she travelled with Goll to Paris, where they married in 1921.
  • Her short stories, poems, and novels also appeared in French.
  • She wrote her poetry collections Poèmes d'amour (1925), Poèmes de la jalousie (1926) and Poèmes de la vie et de la mort together with her husband as a "shared song of love" ("Wechselgesang der Liebe"). The pair, both of Jewish origin, fled from Europe to New York in 1939, but returned in 1947.
  • Yvan died in 1950.
  • From then on, Goll dedicated her work to her husband.
  • Her autobiographical novels Der gestohlene Himmel (1962) and Traumtänzerin (1971) did not receive much attention.
  • However, her battle with Paul Celan over copyright and plagiarism, known as the "Goll Affair", caused a significant stir.

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