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The love affair between the two most prominent German-language poets after 1945 began in postwar Vienna. Ingeborg Bachmann was studying philosophy there, while for Paul Celan Vienna was only a stopover. In May 1948, they met, and at the end of June he left for Paris. Their correspondence after the separation is at first infrequent and hesitant, but then it gains momentum and continues in new dramatic phases. Each of these phases has its own face: its own special tone, its own topics, its own hopes, its own dynamics, its own form of silence. At the end of 1961, the dialogue in letters and personal meetings ceased after Céline's mental crisis during the so-called "Gaul Affair" reached its climax.