Georg Hoprich

Georg Hoprich (born December 29, 1938 in Daia , Transylvania , † April 9, 1969 in Cisnădie ) was a Romanian-German poet .

Life

Georg Hoprich was born as the son of a farmer in Thalheim (Daia) near Hermannstadt ( Sibiu ). He attended grammar school in Sibiu and from 1956 studied German in Bucharest . He was imprisoned in 1961 after a show trial for a single "anti-state" poem ("We are a pale people"). After his release in 1964, he continued to be spied on by the Securitate . Although he was able to complete his studies in 1967, he was forbidden from teaching. Hoprich lived in a state of constant uncertainty and committed suicide in 1969.

In 1983 a work edition of his poetry was published in Bucharest. In 1987, issue 147 of the literary magazine “ die horen ”, which was dedicated to Romanian-German writers, printed eight poems by Hoprich: “Die Poeten” (created in 1967), “Remembrance (I)” (1965), “I stay sometimes” (1960), "In July" (1967), "A Song Over" (1965), "The Acacia" (1967), "The Path of Victim" (1968) and "Miraclia" (1969).

Works

• Poems. From the estate, ed. by Stefan Sienerth . Bucharest: Kriterion Publishing House 1983.
• Heaven lies on its stomach. Poems. Leipzig: Reinecke & Voß 2011. ISBN 978-3-942901-00-0

literature

• Klaus Hensel and editing: Hoprich, Georg. In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Lim. v. Walther Killy . Edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann . New edition in 12 volumes. Volume 5 (Har-Hug). Berlin; New York: de Gruyter 2009. p. 579.
• Dieter Schlesak : The school of schizophrenia. In: FAZ , November 16, 2010. p. 33.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Hoprich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ingmar Brantsch : Hoprich, Georg . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Daia's pale son , contribution to Georg Hoprich