Eduard Schneider (editor)

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Eduard Schneider , pseudonym: Edgar Schnitsler , Johann Esperschidt (born May 10, 1944 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German specialist in German , Romanian and newspaper editor .

Life

Eduard Schneider graduated from the Nikolaus-Lenau-Lyzeum in Timișoara in 1962, after which he studied German and Romanian at the Western University of Timișoara until 1967 . He wrote his dissertation on " The expression of the thoughts and feelings of socialist people in the poetry of Oskar Pastiors , Christian Maurers and Astrid Connerth ". In 1969 he was appointed cultural editor of the Neue Banater Zeitung ; from 1979 he headed their features section .

In April 1989, Schneider sat on the road to Gera to a visit to the GDR -Partnerzeitung Volkswacht of Hungary into the Federal Republic of Germany from. Since 1992 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe at the LMU Munich and since 2006 has been responsible as editor of the institute's magazine "Spiegelungen".

Publications (selection)

Eduard Schneider wrote numerous essays and reviews on German, Romanian-German and Romanian literature and also appeared as an editor of text collections and anthologies such as verbatim. An anthology of young poetry from the Banat (1972). In Romania he published the volume of poems That the sky was so red in the evening (1982), in Germany, together with Stefan Sienerth, the book accompanying the Nikolaus Lenau exhibition I am an instinctual person on earth (1993) and the documentation literature in the “ Temesvarer Newspaper "1918-1949 (2003). In collaboration with Nikolaus Berwanger and Horst Samson , Schneider edited the yearbook of the Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn Pflastersteine literary circle , published in 1982 by the Timișoara cultural committee.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jody McKim: Banat Journalist, Author & Literary Historian & Critic Schneider, Eduard (pseudonym: Edgar Schnitsler, Johann Esperschidt). In: Banat Biographies. November 10, 2009, in English
  2. ^ Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). (Thalia Germanica, Volume 11). 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11413-6 .
  3. ↑ Marius Koity: OTZ editor Marius Koity about his meeting with the Romanian national security. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. March 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe : Encounters with Romanian and Romanian-German writers: Eduard Schneider ( Memento from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). on September 4, 2007 in the Federal Chancellery
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnitsler, Edgar; Esperschidt, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, Romanianist and newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania