Gheorghe Săsărman

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Gheorghe Săsărman is a writer of Romanian origin living in Germany

Gheorghe Emil Săsărman (* 1941 in Bucharest , Romania ) is a Romanian writer and journalist ; he has lived in Germany since 1983 .

life and work

Gheorghe Sasarman was born into a Greek-Catholic family who fled to Bucharest from northern Transylvania . He studied architecture at the Ion Mincu Institute in Bucharest . In 1965 he became editor of the daily Scânteia until he worked for the magazine Contemporanul in 1974 .

Forced for political reasons (one brother decided "illegally" to stay in Canada) to give up journalism, he left the country to move to Munich in 1983. Here he worked as a computer scientist. After 1989 he resumed his journalistic activities with articles in the local and foreign press. Between 2005 and 2010 was director and editor of the magazine Apoziţia (new series), Munich.

1962 made his debut as a writer, he published prose volumes and novels in the following years; Translations of two of his works have appeared in Germany, France, Spain and the USA, as well as short prose in magazines and anthologies in Romania, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Japan. A play was performed in Gasteig / Munich and at the Bucharest Theater CI Nottara.

Publications

prose

  • Oracolul ( The Oracle ), short stories, Tineretului Verlag, Bucharest 1969
  • Cuadratura cercului ( The squaring of the circle ), fantastic prose, Dacia Verlag, Klausenburg 1975 (censored version)
    • Cuadratura cercului , Dacia Verlag, Klausenburg 2001 (second, complete edition)
    • Cuadratura cercului , Nemira Verlag, Bucharest 2013 (third edition)
    • La quadrature du cercle , Ed. Noël Blandin, Paris 1994
    • La cuadratura del círculo , La Biblioteca del Laberinto, Madrid 2010
    • Squaring the Circle , Aqueduct Press, Seattle 2013 (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
    • Squaring the circle , Verlag Lindenstruth, Giessen 2016
    • 方形 の 円 (Japanese version of Cuadratura cercului ), Tokyo Sogensha Publishing House, Tokyo 2019
  • Himera ( The Chimera ), Stories and Novellas, Albatros Verlag, Bucharest 1979
  • 2000 , Roman, Eminescu Verlag, Bucharest 1982
    • The Enclaves of Time , Heyne Verlag, Munich 1986 (German version)
  • Cupa de cucută ( The Hemlock Cup ), novel, Sedona Verlag, Timișoara 1994
  • Cupa cu cucută , Roman, Dacia Verlag, Klausenburg 2002 (non-SF version)
  • Sud contra Nord , Roman, Dacia Verlag, Klausenburg 2001
  • Vedenii ( ghosts ), short stories, Ideea Europeană publishing house, Bucharest 2007
  • Nemaipomenitele aventuri ale lui Anton Retegan și ale dosarului său , ( The unheard of adventures of Anton Retegan and his acts ), novel, Nemira Verlag, Bucharest 2011
  • Varianta balcanică îmbunătățită ( The improved Balkan variant ), prose and theater, Nemira

Publishing house, Bucharest 2014

  • Adevărata cronică a morții lui Yeșua Ha-Nozri ( The True Chronicle of the Death of Yeshua Ha-Nozri ), novel, Polirom Verlag, Iassi 2016

theatre

  • Farul ( The Lighthouse ), (Observator, Munich, No. 1–2, 2000, p.56-73)
  • Deus ex machina (Gasteig, Munich, 2005; Theater CI Nottara, Bucharest, 2006–2009)

Non-fiction

  • Cunoaștere și credință. Lecturi paralele ( Knowledge and Belief. Parallel Readings ), Nemira Verlag,

Bucharest 2014.

Journalism

  • Între oglinzi paralele ( Between Parallel Mirrors ), House of the Scientific Book, Cluj-Napoca 2009

Architectural theory

  • Funcțiune, spațiu, arhitectură ( function, space, architecture ), essay, Meridiane Verlag, Bucharest 1979 (dissertation)
  • Gîndirea estetică în arhitectura românească ( Aesthetic thinking in Romanian architecture ), Meridiane Verlag, Bucharest 1983 (introduction, general coordination)
  • Estetica ( The Aesthetics ), treatise, Verlag der Akademie, Bucharest 1983 (Chapter Aesthetics of Architecture)

literature

  • Mircea Opriţă: Anticipaţia românească ( Romanian science fiction ), Dacia Verlag, Klausenburg 1994, pp. 261-269.
  • Dicţionar SF ( SF Lexicon ), Nemira Verlag, Bucharest 1999, p. 208
  • Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu (coord.): Dicţionarul scriitorilor români ( Lexicon of Romanian Writers ), Albatros Verlag, Bucharest 2002, Volume IV (RZ), pp. 179-182.
  • Florin Manolescu: Encicopedia exilului literar românesc ( Encyclopedia of Romanian literary exile ), Compania Verlag, Bucharest 2003, p. 614; 2nd edition, Bucharest 2010, pp. 636–637.
  • Virgil Stanciu: Războiul gândului cu literele ( The war of thoughts with letters ), Tribuna Verlag, Klausenburg 2004, pp. 314–318.
  • Academia Română (Romanian Academy): Dicţionarul general al literaturii române ( General Lexicon of Romanian Literature ), Enzyklopädisches Universum Verlag, Bucharest 2007, Volume VI (ST), pp. 87–88.
  • Ion Pop (coord.): Dicţionar analitic de opere literare româneşti ( Analytical Lexicon of Romanian Literature Works ), House of Scientific Books, Klausenburg 2007, pp. 203–205, 358–359
  • Cornel Robu: Scriitori români de science-fiction ( Romanian science-fiction writer ), House of the Scientific Book, Klausenburg 2008, pp. 168–177, 359–368, 399–403
  • Flaminia Robu: Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky - Un celebru poem în 70 de limbi care nu există ( A famous poem in 70 languages ​​that do not exist ), Haus des Wissenschaftlichen Buch, Klausenburg 2008, pp. 130–132.
  • Marian Popa: Istoria Literaturii Române de azi pe mâine ( History of Romanian Literature overnight ), 2nd edition, Semne Verlag, Bucharest 2009, Volume II, p. 939

membership

  • Romanian Architects' Association (1966–1983)
  • Romanian Writers' Union (since 1978)
  • Association of Romanian and German Writers in Bavaria (since 1998)
  • Association of Journalists (1965–1983)
  • Association of Professional Journalists of Romania (since 2006)
  • German-Romanian Cultural Society “Apoziţia” eV, Munich (since 1990); Executive Chairman (2005–2008)
  • Association of Romanian-German Associations in Germany eV; Founder, Chairman (2002–2004), Honorary Chairman (since 2004)

Awards

  • 1962: International prize in the literary competition of Eastern European countries
  • 1979: Prize from the Association of Architects for the essay Function, Space, Architecture
  • 1980: The Europe Prize, at the European Convention EUROCON V (Stresa / Italy)
  • 1982: Prize from the magazine Ştiinţă şi Tehnică, for the novel 2000
  • 2012: "Ion Hobana" Prize, Opera Omnia, awarded by the Romanian Writers' Union, Bucharest Branch
  • 2017: Prize "Liviu Rebreanu" (Book of the Year - Prose), awarded by the Romanian Writers' Union, Cluj-Napoca branch, for the novel "Adevărata cronică a morții lui Yeșua Ha-Nozri"

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personal data
SURNAME Săsărman, Gheorghe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Săsărman, Gheorghe Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania