Doina Cornea

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Doina Cornea

Doina Cornea (born May 30, 1929 in Brașov , † May 4, 2018 in Cluj-Napoca ) was a Romanian anti-communist dissident and human rights activist .

Life

Doina Cornea worked as a French teacher at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj . In 1980 she published her first samizdat publication: Încercarea Labirintului (“The Test of the Labyrinth”), which was followed by four samizdat translations from French.

Between 1982 and 1989 Doina Cornea published 31 texts and letters of protest against the Ceaușescu regime, which she transmitted illegally to Radio Free Europe . In 1983 she was released from university and interrogated by the Securitate , beaten and threatened with death. After the revolution of 1989 she was a member of the Council of the Front for National Salvation for a short time .

In 1989 she was honored with the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize and in 1993 made the first honorary citizen of Timișoara .

literature

  • Dennis Deletant : Ceaușescu and the Securitate. Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989. ME Sharpe, London, 1995, ISBN 1-56324-633-3 . Pp. 261-271.
  • Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman: Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2016. pp. 167ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anti-communist resistance fighter Doina Cornea has died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 4, 2018, Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  2. ^ Laureate 1989: Doina Cornea, Writing for freedom in a communist dictatorship. Rafto Foundation, accessed May 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Timișoara are peste 80 de cetateni de onoare. In: România Liberă . July 10, 2006, accessed May 4, 2018 (Romanian).
personal data
SURNAME Cornea, Doina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian dissident and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 2018
Place of death Cluj-Napoca