Anton Petri (musician)

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Anton Petri

Anton Petri (born on May 12, 1928 in Sălbăgelu Nou ( German  Eichenthal ), Kingdom of Romania ; died on May 8, 2005 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German teacher , choirmaster , conductor and author .

Life

family

Anton Petri was a member of the Banat Swabian ethnic group , a German-speaking minority in Romania. He was married since 1954 to the teacher Judith from Vršac (Werschetz), née Petrowitsch. This marriage has two children: son Norbert and daughter Adelheid.

Working in Romania

Anton Petri attended the first four primary school classes at the German elementary school in Eichenthal , where he learned to play the violin for two years in the string orchestra of teacher Franz Grenzner. He attended German secondary school in Lugoj (Lugosch). This was followed by a year of teacher training at the " Banatia " teacher training college in Timișoara (Timisoara), which he had to break off because of the Second World War.

From 1945 to 1949 he was deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor . After his return home, he continued his teacher training at the "Banatia", which he finished in 1954 with a teaching diploma. In 1962 he began studying music at the “ Gheorghe Dima ” Conservatory in Cluj , which he completed in 1966 with a degree in “Conducting and Composition”.

From 1950 he was headmaster at the German elementary school with boarding school in Știuca (Ebendorf) for eight years . There he founded and directed a string orchestra with school children and young people and directed the mixed choir.

In 1965 he acquired the "diploma of a top teacher" ( Romanian Învățător fruntaș ) for excellent school, educational and social-cultural achievements . From 1957 he worked for nine years as a methodological school councilor for the national minorities in the Lugosch Rayon (Romanian: raion ; territorial division of Romania from 1950 to 1968) and for a further three years as vice-principal at elementary schools No. 1 and No. 5 in Lugosch. At the same time he was a music teacher at the German grammar school in Lugosch. For eight years he was the city's music director.

During his time in Lugos he was part of the “Ion Vidu” choir and acquired four national titles while singing criticism from amateur bands. He directed the school choirs at Lugosch Schools No. 1 and 5. At the German grammar school there, he led the school's entertainment band, founded a brass band and a folklore ensemble. He was also the director of the folk music orchestra at the orphanage in Gavojdia .

In 1975 he obtained his second degree in vocal music at the Bucharest Conservatory .

Working in Germany

Eichenthaler Heimatbuch by Anton Petri

In 1979 Anton Petri moved with his family to the Federal Republic of Germany and lived in Obernheim in Baden-Württemberg until 1993 , then in Mühlacker , Freiburg and Denzlingen .

From 1979 he taught for 14 years as a teacher at the elementary school and secondary school in Obernheim (Zollernalbkreis), where he founded and directed the school orchestra and the dance group. In Oberdigisheim he directed the mixed choir, in Unterdigisheim the church choir and 1985–1986 the brass band there in Gößlingen. During this time he wrote the choir settings for schoolchildren and mixed choirs, as well as the potpourris for the school and entertainment orchestra and the brass band. With his music groups he went on concert tours through Germany, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia.

In 1985 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg State Certificate of Honor for forty years of successful public service. Since the founding of the Heimatortsgemeinschaft (HOG) Eichenthal in 1982, he has been involved as a cultural advisor in the home meetings and parish festivals of the Eichenthalers in the village of Asbach-Bäumenheim , where he was the keynote speaker from the first meeting in 1984. Likewise, Anton Petri, as a former teacher in Ebendorf and Lugosch, regularly took part in the home meetings of the hometown communities of Ebendorf and Lugosch.

On August 1, 1993, he retired from work, but continued to work for HOG Eichenthal. After Hans Pfeiffer, the chairman of the HOG-Eichenthal, had collected many contributions for the "Heimatbuch" of the Eichenthalers up to 1991, Anton Petri decided to present the manuscript of the Eichenthaler Heimatbuch in 1992 at the 5th HOG meeting. In 1994, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Eichenthal, his book “Eichenthal. Home in the Banat. History of a small German community from Banat from its foundation to its decline ”published by HOG-Eichenthal.

Anton Petri died on May 8, 2005 in Freiburg after a long illness. The urn was buried in Kitzingen in the grave next to his wife.

Publications

  • Anton Petri: Eichenthal. Home in the Banat. History of a small German community from Banat from its foundation to its decline . HOG Eichenthal, 1994.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decree 717/1956 of the Romanian Ministry of Education. In: lege5.ro
  2. ↑ Annemarie Weber (ed.): The Germans in Romania 1944–1953. A collection of sources. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne – Weimar 2015, ISBN 3-41222-528-2 , p. 406.
  3. ↑ Anton Petri: “Eichenthal. Heimat im Banat ”, p. 291 ff.
  4. ↑ see Anton Petri's preface to Eichenthal. Home in the Banat , page 5.
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Sălbăgelu Nou , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2005
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau