Erwin Wittstock

Erwin Wittstock (born February 25, 1899 in Sibiu , Transylvania , † December 27, 1962 in Kronstadt ) was a German-speaking writer from Romania .

Life

Erwin Wittstock belonged to the German-speaking minority of the Transylvanian Saxons . He was the son of a pastor . Wittstock attended high schools in Schäßburg and Mediasch . After the matriculation examination had taken off, he took in the First World War as a volunteer a Hungarian artillery unit of the Austro-Hungarian army in battles in Italy in part. From 1919-1922 studied it law at the University of Cluj . He completed this study with the Lizenziatsgrad , and was followed up in 1936 as a municipal official of the Government in Sibiu operates. He also published his first literary works. From 1936 to 1944 he lived as a freelance writer in Sibiu , Berlin and the Bohemian town of Hammer am See . After the end of the Second World War , Wittstock worked as a teacher and from 1957 as a lawyer in Sibiu and Kronstadt , then freelance writer again . Erwin Wittstock is the father of the writer Joachim Wittstock (* 1939) and the politician and journalist Wolfgang Wittstock (* 1948).

Erwin Wittstock's work consists mainly of novels and short stories . While he processed personal experiences from school and military service in his early stories to Wittstock approached in the narrative works of the thirties and forties of the ethnic German ideology and was consistent from the NS - cultural policy recognized for their purposes. After 1945, Wittstock made another turn and now increasingly devoted himself to social issues; this meant that his works outside of Romania primarily in East Germany - publishers appeared.

In 1936 Erwin Wittstock received the Volksdeutsche Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart and an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg . He had been a member of the Romanian Writers' Union since 1950 .

Works

• Jesus before the Sanhedrin , Sibiu 1926
• Zineborn , Sibiu 1927
• The liquidation of the Saxon national assets and the expropriation of the Sieben-Richter-Waldungen , Schäßburg 1931
• Brother, take the brothers with you , Munich 1933
• Draft for an organizational statute of the Saxon national community , Schäßburg 1933
• The friendship of Kockelburg , Munich 1935
• Station one-free. Heart on the border , Munich 1936
• The funeral of Maio , Leipzig 1937
• Miesken and Riesken , Munich 1937
• ... guests in the evening ... , Munich 1938
• The wedding jewelry , Munich 1941
• Königsboden , Munich 1941
• Linen knit and pipe of peace , Prague [u. a.] 1944
• The castaways , Hamburg 1949
• The potters from Agnethendorf , Bucharest 1954
• Friends , Bucharest 1956
• The meeting , Bucharest 1957
• Einkehr , Berlin 1958
• The lost friend , Berlin 1958
• The Wängertsthuel cattle market , Berlin 1958
• Wedding jewelry and other stories , Berlin 1962
• The Coachman's Son and Other Tales , Bucharest 1964
• The friendship of Kockelburg and other stories , Berlin 1965
• The false malvasia , Bucharest 1970
• An excursion with Uncle Flieha , Berlin 1971
• The Last Judgment in Altbirk , Bucharest 1971
• The dog and the fox and other stories , București 1988
• The last festival , Bucharest 1991
• January '45 or The higher duty , Bucharest 1998
• Einkehr , Munich 1999

Editing

• Transylvanian novellas and short stories , Bucharest 1955

literature

• Joachim Wittstock: Erwin Wittstock, the narrative work , Cluj-Napoca 1974

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eberhard-Wolfgang WITTSTOCK - Curriculum Vitae , accessed on August 27, 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Wittstock in the catalog of the German National Library