Franz Heinz

Franz Heinz (left)

Franz Heinz (born November 21, 1929 in Periam , German  Perjamosch , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Franz Heinz comes from the ethnic group of the Banat Swabians . He attended elementary school in his hometown, then the grammar school in Timișoara and Periam. After the family fled to Austria in 1944 , they returned to the Banat at the end of the Second World War . Franz Heinz initially worked as a farm worker and baker . After graduating from high school, he studied history and geography in Bucharest ; he completed this study with the state examination. From 1960 to 1974 Heinz was part of the editorial team of the German-language newspaper "Neuer Weg" , which appears in Bucharest ; at the same time he was an employee of the German program of the Romanian radio and television. Since the early 1960s he has been publishing literary texts in German for Romanian publishers .

After Heinz had applied to leave the country in 1974 , the Romanian authorities imposed a professional ban on him. In 1976 he was able to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany . Since then he has mainly worked as a journalist . He worked for various cultural magazines of the " Ostdeutsche Kulturrat ", u. a. from 1984 as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Der Gemeinschaft Weg" and from 1990 to 1995 of "Kulturspiegel". Since 1995 he has been editor-in-chief of the "Kultur-Report" magazine published by the Central German Cultural Council Foundation . Heinz lives in Ratingen near Düsseldorf .

Franz Heinz is the author of stories , essays , plays and radio plays .

He was a member of the Romanian Writers' Union until 1976 ; he is a member of the German Association of Journalists and the Free German Association of Authors . Heinz received the award of the Romanian Writers' Association for German-language prose in 1972 and the Donauschwäbischen Kulturpreis in 1994 .

Works

• Hussars of the Fields , Bucharest 1962
• From the water flowing upstream , Bucharest 1962
• The blue window and other sketches , Bucharest 1965
• Eight under one roof , Bucharest 1967
• Worries between nine and eleven , Bucharest 1968
• Morning , Bucharest 1970
• Memory of quinces , Bucharest 1971
• Trouble like the dog , Bucharest 1972
• Under the sky of loyalty in the garden of hope , Munich 1979 (together with Dietlind in der Au and Horst Scheffler)
• Encounter and transformation , Esslingen / Neckar 1985 (together with Gert Fabritius)
• Franz Ferch and his Banater World , Munich 1988
• Dear homeland, goodbye! , Bad Münstereifel 1998
• District of Mettmann, the district with special corners , Mettmann 2000

Editing

• Otto Alscher : The Lion Slayer , Bucharest 1972
• Otto Alscher : Belgrade Diary , Bucharest 1975
• Karl Grünn : Poems , Bucharest 1976
• Otto Alscher : Animal and Hunting Stories, Bucharest 1977
• Magical Square , Düsseldorf 1979
• There is always hope that Berlin [u. a.] 1986
• Unser Heimatbuch , Ingelheim 1998 (edited together with Evi Krämer)

literature

• Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Th. Breit Druck + Verlag GmbH, Marquartstein 1992. S. 675.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Heinz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and books. Hometown community Perjamosch, accessed January 7, 2017 . 
• Peter Motzan , Konrad Gündisch: Encounters with Romanian and Romanian German writers. bkge.de, January 31, 2008, archived from the original on August 9, 2011 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 . 
• Franz Heinz: Courage for truth and lived democracy. typeer.de, February 3, 2008, archived from the original on November 26, 2011 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 . 
• Franz Heinz: Winter in Chernivtsi. In: No landscape outside. typeer.de, archived from the original on November 26, 2011 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Heinz: Trouble like the dog '. Rimbaud Publishing House.