Georg Scherg

Georg Scherg (born January 19, 1917 in Kronstadt , Romania , † December 20, 2002 in Bodelshausen ) was a German teacher and writer.

Life

Georg Scherg began to study philology in 1935. He studied in Giessen, Berlin and Paris. 1938 to 1941 he interrupted his studies for service in the Romanian army. He then continued his studies in Tübingen and Strasbourg. From 1944 to 1946 he worked as a high school teacher in Reutlingen.

In 1947 he returned to Romania and initially worked as a German teacher. He went public with his first literary works in the 1950s. In 1957 he became a university lecturer in Cluj-Napoca . He was arrested on September 30, 1958. In the Kronstadt writer trial, he was sentenced to 20 years of forced labor. He was released early on October 10, 1962. He first worked as a canal keeper and violinist at the State Philharmonic in Kronstadt. In 1968 he was rehabilitated by the Romanian Supreme Court. In 1970 he was appointed head of the philological faculty at the Institute for German Literature in Sibiu and worked there until his retirement in 1984.

In the 1970s and 1980s, numerous works by him appeared in Romanian publishers.

Georg Scherg applied for his departure to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1987, which was approved after the coup in Romania in 1990. Further stages in his life took him to Belsen (Mössingen) and Bodelshausen, where he died of a fall in 2002.

Works

• Giordano Bruno State Publishing House for Art and Literature, Bucharest 1954
• Ovid State Publishing House for Art and Literature, Bucharest 1955
• Since no master and no servant Staatsverlag für Kunst und Literatur, Bucharest 1957
• The stories of Peter Merthes, three volumes, Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1957–1984
• That tip the scales in 1968
• Bass and rushes , Dacia Verlag Cluj-Napoca 1973
• The Spiegelkammer, Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1974
• Paraskiv Paraskiv Dacia Verlag Cluj-Napoca 1976
• The ax in the house , Dacia Verlag Cluj-Napoca 1979
• The sandpit , Kriterion Verlag Bucharest 1981
• Hospitality Kriterion Verlag Bucharest 1985
• The Debt Citizens Kriterion Verlag Bucharest 1987
• The concealed coin Dacia Verlag Cluj-Napoca 1987
• Wendelin and the Rainbow Creanga Verlag Bucharest 1988
• GOA MGOO or the invention of immortality Tebbert Verlag Münster / Westphalia 1997

Poems

• The Silberdistel Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1968
• In the land of Ur Tentamen / Kleine Handbücherei, Stuttgart 1978
• Hospitality Kriterion Publishing House, Bucharest 1985
• Summer Divertimento (with pen drawings by Traian Gligor), special print Heilbronn-Mössingen 1997
• Illustrated book Verlag Herrmann, 1999
• Piranda Global Media Verlag, 2003

literature

• Georg Herbstritt : The Kronstadt writer trial in 1959 in the files of the GDR State Security. In: Half-yearly publication for Southeast European History, Literature and Politics , 23rd year, Issue 1–2, 2011, pp. 204–208
• Michaela Nowotnick: "95 years imprisonment". Kronstadt writers trial 1959. Forms of representation and interpretation patterns of the reappraisal . In: Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics, 24th year, issue 1–2, 2012, pp. 173–181
• William Totok: empathy for all victims. Eginald Schlattner, a life in times of dictatorial rule . In: Semi-annual publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics, 24th year, issue 1–2, 2012, pp. 181–198
• Laura Laza: The builder was fear. The political processes of Romanian and German-speaking writers from Romania after the Hungarian uprising of 1956. Cluj-Napoca 2017. ISBN 978-606-17-1118-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Scherg in the catalog of the German National Library