Ewalt Zweyer

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Ewalt Zweyer (pseudonym Felix Förster ; born February 18, 1932 in Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German editor-in-chief , reporter and local researcher .

Life

Ewalt Zweyer is the son of the German bookseller and musician Friedrich Zweyer from Bucharest and came from the Kronstadt publishing family Zeidner and the Bucharest artist family Storck on his mother's side . He is the oldest child of nine siblings. He first studied agronomy (distance learning from 1950), then German and English (1965–1970) at the University of Bucharest . His thesis treated 1970 people unifying function Adolf Meschendörfers magazine "The Carpathians" .

After a year of forest work, Zweyer began working as a local reporter for the Neuer Weg newspaper in December 1949 . In 1950 he took over the newly established "Agriculture" department. In 1968 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the newly founded newspaper of the District Committee and the District People's Council Hermannstädter Zeitung (renamed “Die Woche” in November 1971). During this time he was "an additional office member in the Sibiu County Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (RKP) and a member of the Central Revision Commission". In this function he took part on July 3, 1968 in the "Consultation at the Central Committee (ZK) of the RKP with scientists and cultural workers from the ranks of German nationality", which resulted in the Council of Working People of German Nationality . In 1974 he was dismissed from the position of editor-in-chief for political reasons. Zweyer then returned to the Neuer Weg newspaper as chief reporter and worked there until October 1990. In the course of this activity he conducted interviews with Hans-Dietrich Genscher (January 1990) and Hermann Heinemann, among others .

Ewalt Zweyer moved to Germany in December 1990. From April 1991 he worked as a local researcher for the Association of Transylvanian Saxons . Between 1996 and 2008 he worked as a “special representative” for the Transylvanian-Saxon Foundation in Munich and oversaw numerous book and film productions. Zweyer is an editor, translator and tour guide. He took care of around 100 homeland books editorially and editorially, accompanied restoration measures at fortified churches in Transylvania and organized the "Bavarian Culture Days in Sibiu" with the Bavarian State Chancellery and the Federal Cultural Advisor in 2000. Since 2005 he has been the press officer and secretary of the Munich district group of the Union of Transylvanian Saxony. Zweyer is the author of many articles for the "Siebenbürgische Zeitung".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Siegenbürger Zeitung, Hans-Werner Schuster: Macher, Kümmerer and journalist - Ewalt Zweyer on his 80th birthday , February 18, 2012
  2. ^ Hannelore Baier : The year 1968 and the German minority ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Zweyer, Ewalt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felix Forster
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor-in-chief, reporter and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania