Arnold Hauser (writer)

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Arnold Rudolf Hauser (born March 31, 1929 in Brașov , Kingdom of Romania , † December 31, 1988 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian-German writer . He belonged to the minority of the Transylvanian Saxons in Romania.

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1946 to 1949 , he practiced this profession until 1951. From 1951 to 1960 he worked as a makeover editor for the Bucharest German daily newspaper Neuer Weg , where he also published his first literary attempts. He also attended evening school , which he graduated with a secondary school leaving certificate. From 1960 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Neue Literatur , in which his first short stories and short stories appeared as preprints.

On July 3, 1968, Nicolae Ceaușescu held a consultation with scientists and cultural workers from the ranks of German nationality at the RKP Central Committee in Bucharest. Arnold Hauser and his wife Hedi Hauser were among the participants . 1968 was the year in which Nicolae Ceaușescu showed a certain willingness to hold an exchange with the representatives of opinion leaders in society. A short period of euphoria began (until 1971), the so-called thaw period . Numerous writers joined the RKP out of conviction. It is not known when Arnold Hauser became a member of the Romanian Workers' Party ( Romanian Partidul Muncitoresc Român ), which was renamed the Romanian Communist Party (RKP) in 1965 .

Arnold Hauser was a member of the Romanian Writers' Union. Some of his prose texts have been translated into Romanian, Hungarian and Russian and some have also been published in foreign magazines from the German-speaking period. In 1976, Hauser stayed for a few months as a guest of the German Academic Exchange Service in West Berlin . From 1985 until his death in 1988 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Neue Literatur in Timișoara .

The blurb of the volume “Der Fischteich” (LCB-Editions Berlin, 1980) states that it “moves in two thematic areas: on the one hand, there are the experiences of the German population of Romania in the period after the last war [.. .] on the other, it is the episodic of everyday life, the event treated reflectively. "

But he also repeatedly published political texts “to order”, such as B. “Complete gratitude” in the anthology “Honoring President Ceauşescu. Writers and cultural workers speak up. "

Arnold Hauser was married to the children's book author and director of the Kriterion Verlag Hedi Hauser , who came from the Banat, and has two daughters and a son.

Publications

Arnold Hauser's work, which is strongly influenced by autobiography , includes stories , sketches and a novel .

  • Notches , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1962
  • A door opens , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1964
  • People I Knew , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1965
  • Fresh snow in March , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1968
  • The questionable report by Jakob Bühlmann , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1968; Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1972
  • On the way , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1971
  • Examination everyday life , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1974
  • The fish pond , LCB editions Berlin, 1980

Translations

  • Simion Pop : The Merry Cemetery , Bucharest 1972.

Awards

literature

  • Karsten Kruschel : Hauser, Arnold , in: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon 20th Century, Volume 15, Hauptmann – Heinemann, edited by Lutz Hagestedt, DeGruyter 2010, column 167–168.
  • Ernst Kulcsar: literature of the astray - literature of the wrong path. Transylvanian-German literature in the middle of the 20th century. An examination of the sociology of literature using the example of Adolf Meschendörfer , Hans Liebhardt and Arnold Hauser . Dissertation. Erlangen 2001.
  • Stefan Sienerth : Arnold Hauser , in Lexikon der Siebenbürger Sachsen , Thaur bei Innsbruck, 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General German newspaper for Romania , Hannelore Baier : The year 1968 and the German minority , July 11, 2009 (→ online )
  2. ↑ Honor of President Ceaușescu. Writers and cultural workers speak up. Anthology on the 10th anniversary of the election of Comrade Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania. Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest, 1984, pp. 96-97.
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauser, Arnold Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1988
Place of death Bucharest