Adrian Păunescu

Adrian Păunescu

Adrian Păunescu (born July 20, 1943 in Copăceni , Bessarabia , then Romania , now the Republic of Moldova ; † November 5, 2010 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian poet and politician of the PSD .

Act

Adrian Păunescu studied philology at the University of Bucharest . In 1960 he made his debut as a poet. During his life he published more than 50 volumes of poetry. In the 1980s he earned the reputation of court poet to Nicolae Ceaușescu .

Cenaclul "Flacăra"

Adrian Păunescu founded the literary group “Die Flamme” ( Romanian Cenaclul “Flacăra” ) in 1973 , a cultural movement in which young talents could present their works in a mix of literary reading and musical performances. The event, which can be seen as the Romanian counterpart to the October Club , initially took place in the Ion Creangă Theater in Bucharest , but quickly developed into a mass phenomenon with great appeal. Cenaclul "Flacăra" toured all over the country and made guest appearances in ever larger halls, most recently in football stadiums. New talents were constantly recruited in open castings. The events developed into ecstatic collective happenings that could last four to six hours. Romania, its history, its heroes and great intellectuals were praised in songs and poems with a predominantly patriotic-nationalistic tenor. The charismatic focus of the event was Păunescu, who had a permanent place on the podium, where he recited his poems and read the texts of the fans. From 1973 to the last event in 1985, there were 1,615 performances. Numerous artists who are still successful today took part, including Mircea Vintilă, Doru Stănculescu, Ștefan Hruşcă and Anda Călugăreanu. The triple LP "Cenaclul Flacăra în concert", released in 1982, became a bestseller.

Although “Flacăra” always conformed to the system and followed the nationalist Romanian state propaganda of the Ceaușescu era, it was a thorn in the side of the communist state power because of its uncontrollable dynamism, the non-conformist appearance of its artists and the charismatic effect of Păunescu. The documentary film "Cenaclul Flacăra - Te salut, generație în blugi" ("Greetings to you, generation in blue jeans"), produced in 1983 by the Romanian state film company, fell victim to censorship. In the summer of 1985, Cenaclul “Flacăra” was banned forever. The reason for this was a guest appearance in the stadium in Ploieşti , where there was a mass panic with several deaths.

In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Păunescu succeeded with the literary circle "Totuși iubirea" ("In spite of the love") a new edition of the event with a similar basic concept and numerous appearances in Romania, as well as in Chișinău in the Republic of Moldova.

politics

In 1992 Păunescu became a member of the Socialist Workers' Party and was elected to the Senate that same year , to which he belonged until 1996. For the PDSR (later renamed PSD) he was again a member of the Senate from 2000 to 2008.

Works

The literary work comprises a total of 70 books (60 volumes of poetry and 10 volumes of prose).

Volumes of poetry (56 volumes during his lifetime and 6 posthumous volumes):

• Ultrafeelings (1965)
• The First Lambs (1966)
• The Somnambulistic Fountain (1968)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Hap and Pap (1970)
• Extraordinary Life (1971)
• The Story of a Second (1971)
• The Infinite Burden (1974)
• Current Earth (1976)
• Poems to date (1978)
• Manifesto for Earth Health (1980)
• Love You On The Canons (1981)
• The reserve of aurochs (1982)
• Love Though (1983)
• Manifesto for the Third Millennium - Volume 1 (1984)
• Manifesto for the Third Millennium - Volume 2 (1986)
• Common Places (1986)
• My life is a novel (1987)
• Indeed (1988)
• I am free (1989)
• Censored Poems (1990)
• Romaniaa (1993-1994)
• Poor Light People (1993–1994)
• The night of great drunkenness (1993–1994)
• Front without a winner (1993)
• The "to be" offense (1996)
• The National Tragedy (1997)
• The de-Romanization of Romania (1998)
• The book of poetry books (1999), (2003)
• Dirty Job - The Soul (2000)
• Immortal on the Wall of Death (2001)
• Until the end (2002)
• I am free to suffer (2003)
• From two to two (2003)
• Mainly (2003)
• Return to Atlantis (2003)
• The logic of the avalanche (2005)
• Goodbye Snow (2005)
• Buds on the stake (2005)
• We're in the hands of some fools (2005)
• Anti Spring (2005)
• Weariness (2005)
• About Mother and Green Leaf (2006)
• A man on some stairs (2006)
• Trees without a forest (2006)
• Oh god save the Romanians (2006)
• Vagabonds in the Romanian Countryside (2007)
• Prayer for Parents (2007), (2008), (2009)
• Still Alive (2008)
• Oath for Transylvania (2008)
• Freedom from single use (2009)
• The Last Night on Atlantis (2010)
• The Infinite Burden (2010)
• The Most Beautiful Love Poems - Volume 1 (2011)
• Ultra feelings. The first lambs. The somnambulistic fountain (2011)
• Poems with a single point (2011)
• The Most Beautiful Love Poems - Volume 2 (2011)
• Bank of Prut (2013)

Volumes of prose:

• The death postcards (1970)
• Under the Question Mark (1971)
• The world as world (1973)
• Under the Question Mark (1979)
• From Bîrca to Vienna and back (1981)
• The Bleeding Masks (2001)
• The patriotic poem in the fight with the homunculi (2007)
• Generation 60 (2007)
• Fundamental Texts: Culture and Mass Media (2007)
• Guilty of Love (2010)

Web links

• Adrian Păunescu, biography (1943-2010) (Romanian)
• România literară: Adrian Păunescu

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adrian Păunescu (1943-2010)
2. ↑ Hero of Heroes , Der Spiegel , September 9, 1985
3. ↑ As far as the eye can see: Adrian Păunescu stirs up the Romanians one last time
4. ↑ Te salut, generație în blugi on YouTube
5. ^ Biografia lui Adrian Păunescu , Gândul November 5, 2010