Claire Goll (born Klara Liliane Aischmann) (29 October 1890 in Nuremberg,

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– 30 May 1977 in Paris,

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) was a German-French writer and journalist; she married the poet

Yvan Goll Yvan Goll (also: Iwan Goll, Ivan Goll; born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealism ...

in 1921.

Biography

Goll née Aischmann was born on 29 October 1890 in Nuremberg, Germany. She grew up in

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. 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

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to Switzerland, where she studied at the

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, 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 ' and the novella collection '. 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 ' (1925), ' (1926) and ' together with her husband as a "shared song of love" (""). 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 ' (1962) and ' (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. Goll died on 30 May 1977 in Paris, France.

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