Franz Thomas Schleich

Franz Thomas Schleich (born January 1948 in Tomnatic ( German Triebswetter ), People's Republic of Romania ) is a Romanian-German writer and publicist .

Life

Franz Thomas Schleich belongs to the Danube Swabians in the Romanian part of the Banat , which is located on the border with Hungary and Serbia . In his Romanian homeland he published several volumes of poetry in German from the late 1970s and worked for the Neue Banater Zeitung (NBZ) in Timișoara (German Timisoara). The then editor-in-chief of the NBZ, Nikolaus Berwanger, gathered a group of young Romanian-German writers around him, including Horst Samson and William Totok as well as the later Nobel Prize winner for literature Herta Müller and her former husband Richard Wagner .

At the beginning of the 1980s, Schleich submitted an exit application, which was granted, not least through the mediation of the then Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher . The journalist then wrote articles critical of the regime in Stern magazine .

The political TV magazine Report Mainz of SWR reported in a television program on 11 January 2010 in the ARD that he in the 1980s for the Romanian secret Herta Müller and Horst Samson Securitate under the code name Voicu said to have spied.

Franz Thomas Schleich lives near Ludwigshafen am Rhein , where he worked in the communications department of a linoleum company.

Works

Late in the year. Poems. Editura Litera, Bucharest 1978.
Agreement by handshake. Facla-Verlag, Timisoara 1980.
Waiting for the knock. Poetry. Blaschke, St. Michael 1982, ISBN 3-7053-1777-6 .

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Thomas Schleich in the catalog of the German National Library
The informer and the Nobel Prize winner. How a friend and writer Herta Müller delivered to the Securitate broadcast on January 11, 2010 on Südwestrundfunk
William Totok , Fabian Schmidt: The long arm of the Securitate. In: Deutsche Welle from January 14, 2010.
Half-year publication - hjs-online , September 24, 2010: Securitate & "Voicu"
Half-year publication - hjs-online , December 31, 2009: Securitate-Tandem: "Voicu" - "Eva"

Individual evidence

↑ banaterzeitungonline.wordpress.com , Banater Zeitung, Werner Kremm : Mayer, Gruia, Voicu, Barbu and Marin , February 8, 2011
^ Anton Scherer : History of Danube Swabian Literature from 1848 to 2000 . Publishing house of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-926276-51-7 , p. 91 ( Donauschwäbisches Archiv , Volume 101).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Herta Müller and the Securitate , SWR press release from January 11, 2010, from News aktuell , accessed on January 11, 2010 (report on an article in the TV magazine Report Mainz on January 11, 2010 on ARD ).

personal data
SURNAME	Schleich, Franz Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tomnatic , People's Republic of Romania

[1] terzeitungonline.wordpress.com , Banater Zeitung, Werner Kremm : Mayer, Gruia, Voicu, Barbu and Marin , February 8, 2011

[2] Anton Scherer : History of Danube Swabian Literature from 1848 to 2000 . Publishing house of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-926276-51-7 , p. 91 ( Donauschwäbisches Archiv , Volume 101).

[presseportal-3] Herta Müller and the Securitate , SWR press release from January 11, 2010, from News aktuell , accessed on January 11, 2010 (report on an article in the TV magazine Report Mainz on January 11, 2010 on ARD ).