Franz Remmel

Franz Karl Remmel (born September 5, 1931 in Periam , Kingdom of Romania ) is a Romanian-German journalist , ethnologist and writer .

Life

Franz Remmel, son of the sawmill owner and wood goods dealer Franz Remmel senior and Anna Antonia , née Jochmann , moved with his family to Transylvania after the expropriation of his father's business under communist rule . Here he studied education and journalism and worked there as a teacher until 1966. Then Remmel was the district correspondent of the newspaper Neuer Weg in Hunedoara ( German iron market ) and Timișoara ( German Timişoara ).   

In his literary works Remmel took up adventurous events from his homeland or took the reader to distant worlds. The author dealt mainly after 1990 intensively with the lives of Roma - minority in Romania and their recent history.

Honors

He has received several awards for his work in Roma research:

• Honorary diploma from the International Research Society for Romology (Budapest, 2000),
• two honorary diplomas from the royal family Ioan Cioabă (2000 and 2007)
• "Ioan Cioabă" medal (Hermannstadt / Sibiu, 2001)
• "Golden Honorary Diploma" of the International Scientific and Cultural Research Society for Romology (Budapest, 2010)
• Golden Merit Pin of the Republic of Austria (2007)

For his book Bare Feet on Stony Roads. Remmel received support from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and from the Department for Inter-Ethnic Relations in Bucharest on the history of suffering of the Romanian Roma . The chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania , Klaus Johannis , also rated this book positively. On March 7, 2007, Franz Remmel received from the Austrian Ambassador, Dr Dr. Franz Remmel, for his meritorious work as a Roma expert in Hunedoara. Christianzeileissen the Golden Merit Pin of the Republic of Austria . In his books and lectures he described the life of the gypsies and tried to break down clichés and prejudices.

Works

• with others: Promised future: a report book about Hunedoara . Kriterion-Verlag, Bucharest 1974.
• Across all seven seas . Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest 1978.
• Caravans on the death road . Albatros Verlag, Bucharest 1982.
• The black pirate . Dacia Verlag, Cluj-Napoca 1984.
• Stars, sun, sand . Dacia Verlag, Cluj-Napoca 1987.
• Between waves and wind . Facla, Timișoara 1982.
• Safari . Dacia Verlag, Cluj-Napoca 1989, ISBN 973-35-0083-6 .
• Under the sign of the snake . Albatros Verlag, Bucharest 1989, ISBN 973-24-0077-3 .
• The Roma of Romania - people without a hinterland . Picus Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-240-1 .
• Where is it going ?: a mosaic about Romanian Roma society . Hermann & Alfred Arnold, 2002.
• Bare feet on stony roads. On the suffering of the Romanian Roma . Aldus-Verlag, Brașov (Kronstadt) 2003, ISBN 973-9314-85-6 .
• The Tower of Babel: a mosaic on Romanian Roma society . InterGraf-Verlag, Reșița 2004, ISBN 973-87345-0-9 .
• All miracles last three days . InterGraf-Verlag, Reșița 2005, ISBN 973-97258-9-9 .
• The Romanian Roma: in data and facts . Banatul Montan Verlag, Reșița 2007, ISBN 978-973-88461-0-4 .
• Message and Illusion: Evidence of Romanian Roma Literature . Banatul Montan Verlag, Reșița 2007, ISBN 978-973-88077-2-3 .
• Gypsy custom - gypsy law. Traditions in everyday life of the Romanian Roma . Banatul Montan Verlag, Reșița 2008.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Remmel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HOG-Perjamosch.de , researcher and scientist
2. ↑ RomNews.com ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Walter Klemm: Deportation of the Roma documented 
3. ^ Werner Kremm: Neither writer nor Roma researcher. Franz Remmel has published 15 books. on: adz.ro , September 9, 2011.
4. ↑ Honor for Franz Remmel. on: sevenbuerger.de , April 1, 2007.