Emmerich Reichrath

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Emmerich Reichrath (born October 11, 1941 in Jimbolia , German  Hatzfeld , Kingdom of Romania ; † June 27, 2006 in Bucharest , Romania ) was a Romanian German-speaking publicist , literary and theater critic and editor-in-chief .

life and work

Emmerich Reichrath came from the ethnic group of the Banat Swabians . He was a member of the Romanian Communist Party . After completing his German studies at the Western University of Timișoara , he moved to Bucharest in 1964, where he was first appointed culture editor and then head of the cultural department of the daily newspaper Neuer Weg . In 1990 he became editor-in-chief there . In 1993 he founded the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania (ADZ) together with Hans Frank , where he was editor-in-chief until 2006. For several years Reichrath was president of the Foundation for the Promotion of German Literature in Romania , which after 1990 was the editor of the magazine Neue Literatur and temporarily also of the ADZ. The literary critic Reichrath was seen in the 1970s as a supporter of young authors, including the Banat Action Group . His studies, reviews and essays appeared in the anthologies Reflexe I (1977) and Reflexe II (1984).

Emmerich Reichrath died on June 27, 2006 after a serious illness. Gerhardt Csejka wrote in his obituary: "For the sovereign practitioner Emmerich Reichrath, theater and literary criticism, like newspaper production, was an activity aimed at concrete effectiveness".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emmerich Reichrath died. In: Siebenbürger Zeitung, July 6, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Reichrath, Emmerich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian publicist, editor-in-chief, literary and theater critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Jimbolia , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2006
Place of death Bucharest , Romania