Balthasar Waitz

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Balthasar Waitz (born August 18, 1950 in Nițchidorf , Timiș County , People's Republic of Romania ) is a Romanian-German journalist , writer , poet and translator from Romanian.

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Balthasar Waitz was born in 1950 as a Banat Schwabe in Nițchdorf, where he attended the same German village school as the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller . After his parents moved to Reșița , he finished primary school here and then graduated from the “German Theoretical Lyceum Reșița”. He then began studying German and Romanian at the Faculty of Philology at the Western University of Timișoara , which he successfully completed in 1974 with a diploma.

Waitz began his professional career as a German teacher at the “Industrielyzeum Nr. 1” in Reșița (1974–1979). In 1979 he moved to the Neue Banater Zeitung , where he worked as an editor until 1990.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Balthasar Waitz, like Herta Müller, was a member of the Adam Müller Guttenbrunn literary circle, which was founded by the editor-in-chief of the Neue Banater Zeitung Nikolaus Berwanger . Nikolaus Berwanger died in the spring of 1989. The writer and art historian Annemarie Podlipny-Hehn founded the literary circle Stafette after 1990, which can be seen as the successor to the former Adam Müller Guttenbrunn literary circle. The Timisoara branch of the Romanian Writers' Association has been awarding the Berwanger Prize for Banat German authors for years . In 2011 the award went to Balthasar Waitz.

Balthasar Waitz is one of the few Romanian German literary writers who stayed in Romania and did not emigrate to the Federal Republic of Germany. After the political upheaval of 1989/1990, he worked first as editor of the magazine Neue Literatur (1991–1991) and then of the Neue Weg (1991–1992) in Bucharest . In 1993 he returned to Timișoara, where he worked as a freelance writer and publicist until 2006. Waitz has been editor of the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Romania in Timișoara since 2006 .

Memberships

  • Adam Müller Guttenbrunn Literature Circle (formerly Nikolaus Lenau Literature Circle) in Timișoara
  • Romanian-German Cultural Society Timișoara
  • Stafette literary circle (successor to the Adam Müller Guttenbrunn literary circle)
  • Romanian Writers Union, Timisoara branch
  • Member and deputy chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in the Banat , a subdivision of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania

Publications

prose
  • An alibi for Papa Kunze , Dacia-Verlag, Cluj-Napoca 1981
  • Disgusts , Facla-Verlag, Timișoara 1984
  • Nightmare , Kriterion-Verlag, Bucureşti 1996
  • Crow's summer and other stories from the hinterland , Cosmopolitan-Art-Verlag, Timișoara 2011
Anthologies
  • In focus , Timișoara 1979
  • That's how you laugh at Kriterion-Verlag, Bucureşti 1989
  • Merry Europe , Rowohlt-Verlag, Hamburg 1992
  • Stafette , 2007, 2008, 2009, yearbook of the Timișoara literary circle
Translations
  • Dusan Petrovici: The Hermetic Erotica , translation from Romanian, Hestia-Verlag, Timișoara 1994.

Awards

  • Berwanger Prize 2011 of the Romanian Writers' Union, Timișoara branch
  • In 2016 he received one of the four special prizes from the Timișoara Jury.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c uniuneascriitorilortm.ro , Balthasar Waitz on the website of the Romanian Writers' Union , Timișoara branch
  2. ↑ a b adz.ro , Robert Tari : Berwanger Prize for Balthasar Waitz , in ADZ from December 22, 2011
  3. ↑ Ştefana Ciortea Neamţiu: Four “Stafette” members honored. Awards from the Writers' Association. In: General German newspaper for Romania from December 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Waitz, Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German journalist, writer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Nițchidorf , Timiș County , People's Republic of Romania