Alexander Tietz

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Alexander Tietz (born January 9, 1896 in Resicabánya ( German  Rechitz ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † June 10, 1978 Reșița , Socialist Republic of Romania ) was a Banat mountainous German ethnographer , teacher and writer.

Live and act

He was born in 1896 as the son of elementary school teacher Josef Tietz and his wife Therese (née Diaconovich). After elementary school in Reschitz, he attended grammar school in Timișoara (Temeswar) for eight years until 1916 . Since 1913 he took cello lessons from the Timisoara music school. After passing his matriculation examination on June 20, 1916, he began to study German in Budapest and Cluj (Klausenburg).

In 1923 he became a grammar school teacher for German in his hometown of Reschitz - he continued this work until his retirement in 1959.

Since 1920, Tietz published a wide variety of German articles in magazines as an ethnographer, for example one on "Reschitzaer speeches".

Following the example of the Wandervogel , he founded a branch of this association in Reschitz, which was subordinate to the Southeast German Wandervogel . Tietz began his literary career in the magazine Reschitz with a series of 13 articles in Romanian with the heading "Crăișori din sălașul meu".

In the interwar period he wrote for the "Reschitzaer Zeitung." In 1940, Alexander Tietz started a collection of German folk tales and proverbs from the towns of Gărâna (Wolfsberg) and Văliug (Franzdorf), which he expanded in later years to include Romanian and Serbian traditions .

Although he married twice (Stela Maria and later Gertrude Antonia, née Klipsch), he left no children.

In communist Romania he worked on the newspaper Neuer Weg .

In 1978 he died of a traffic accident in his hometown.

Honors

By a resolution of the local council of Reschitz he was subsequently declared an honorary citizen of the place on February 24, 2004 "because of his rich literary and journalistic activities".

Works

  • Legends and fairy tales from the Banat Mountains , Bucharest, 1956
  • The Zauberbründl. Fairy tales from the Banat Mountains , Bucharest, 1958
  • Where the chimneys smoke in the valleys , Bucharest, 1967
  • Fairy tales and legends from the Banat Uplands , Bucharest, 1974

bibliography

  • Koloman Stieger, The History of the Reschitz Wandering Bird Group , in Banater Berglanddeutscher, Munich, Volume 62, 1995.
  • Peter Petri, Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Th. Breit, Marquartstein, 1992.
  • Andreas A. Lillin, first visit to Alexander Tietz , Neue Banater Zeitung, Timisoara, July 15, 1982.
  • Brigitte Stephani: Workers' folklore from the mountains. Alexander Tietz researched little-known folk property. In: Volk und Kultur (Bucharest), 33/12, Dec. 1981, p. 52 ff.
  • Johann Waninger, Alexander Tietz was 80 years old in Neuer Weg, Bucharest, January 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commemoration for Professor Alexander Tietz ( Memento from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) PDF (978kb)
  2. ↑ Cetățenii de onoare ai municipiului Resița ( Memento from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tietz, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnographer, teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Resicabánya , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1978
Place of death Reșița , Socialist Republic of Romania