Hans Bergel

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Hans Bergel (born July 26, 1925 in Rosenau near Kronstadt , Romania ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

The father Erich Bergel was a primary school teacher, during the time of National Socialism he was “Kreisdienststellenleiter Burzenland” and “deserved KdF member”. Together with three siblings, Hans Bergel - according to his own account - had a carefree childhood in Transylvania . The father was imprisoned after the Red Army invaded Romania in 1944. Hans Bergel was to be deported to work in the Soviet gulag in 1945. However, he managed to escape from the assembly camp. From 1946 to 1947 he worked as a teacher. In 1947 he fled communist Romania, was arrested in Budapest , extradited to the Romanian authorities and sentenced. In 1948 Bergel managed to escape from prison, he was arrested again and drafted into the military in 1948. From 1949 to 1956 he was a competitive athlete , a member of the Romanian national ski team. According to his own information, Bergel completed a distance learning course in art history and philosophy in Bucharest from 1951 to 1954 . In 1957/58 he was the cultural editor of the German-language “ People's Newspaper ” - organ of the regional party committee and the Stalin Regional People's Council in Brașov / Kronstadt. In 1959, Bergel was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of forced labor in the Kronstadt writers ' trial, which was directed against a group of German-speaking writers .

Due to a general amnesty for political prisoners, Bergel was released in 1964. In 1968, thanks to the intercession of Günter Grass , he was allowed to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany . Bergel then carried out various activities, including as an external employee of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . 1970 to 1989 he was editor of the "Siebenbürgische Zeitung" in Munich. Since 1991 Bergel has been co-editor of the “Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter”.

According to his own admission, Bergel was appalled in 1968 by the students demonstrating with communist slogans in West Germany and later by their establishment in publishing houses, editorial offices, courts and schools. Bergel criticized the human rights situation in communist Romania, especially regarding the German minority. For this he was accused of nationalism in West Germany. After his emigration to Germany he was shadowed as an alleged enemy of the state by the Romanian secret service Securitate . When he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, his certificate said: “For steadfast fight against the dictatorship even after your emigration”. The rector of the university added that Bergel's interviews on Radio Free Europe had encouraged everyone in Romania.

Bergel sees in the current Federal Republic of Germany a “ruin of the basic positions that a community ... needs for the future” and responsible for this is a “excess of ideological arrogance”. He sees here "a society that has deleted the basic values ​​of family and children from its cultural definition and thus shelves itself". He lives in Groebenzell , but often withdraws to his refuge in Italy, his " Costermano solitude".

Hans Bergel is a brother of the conductor Erich Bergel the Elder . J.

Works

  • Prince and Lautenschläger (1956)
  • The Adventures of Japan (1958)
  • Romania - Portrait of a Nation (1968)
  • The Racing Foxes (1969)
  • In the circle of fire, 10 stories (1972)
  • Dice games of life: four portraits of important Transylvanians, Conrad Haas , Johann Martin Honigberger , Paul Richter, Arthur Phleps . Munich: Meschendörfer, 1972
  • The Saxons in Transylvania after thirty years of communism, study (1975)
  • The dance in chains, novel (1977)
  • Transylvania, Pictures of a European Landscape (1980)
  • Gestalten und Gewalten, essays, articles, lectures (1982)
  • The Death of the Shepherd or The Early Teachers (1985)
  • The Venus Heart (1987)
  • ... and Christmas is everywhere (1988)
  • The Motive of Freedom (1988)
  • Attention and concern. Notes of an Inconvenient (1994)
  • Prose - Poetry (1995)
  • Explorations and discoveries. Notes from a curious person. Essays (1995)
  • Un poem de Radu Gyr şi opt eseuri (A poem by Radu Gyr and eight essays). Foreword by Peter Motzan , translation into Romanian by Mariana Lăzărescu (1995)
  • When the Eagles Come, novel ( trilogy ) (1996) is about a family in Transylvania.
  • Bucovinian traces. By poets and visual artists. Aachen: Rimbaud 2002. ISBN 3-89086-747-2
  • The return of the wolves. Langen-Müller, 2006. ISBN 978-3784430522
  • Crossroads. Thirteen images of life. Bamberg: Johannis Reeg Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-937320-38-0
  • On the eve of the typhoon. Stories from an adventurous life. Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2010. ISBN 978-3-86813-002-7
  • The black dancer. Selected poems. Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2012. ISBN 978-3-86813-008-9
  • The game and the chaos. Essays and lectures. Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2012. ISBN 978-3-86813-013-3
  • Of palm trees, deserts and bazaars. Travel Notes from Israel. Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2013. ISBN 978-3-86813-019-5
  • European impressions. Travel observations between Cluj-Napoca and Rome. Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2014. ISBN 978-3-86813-022-5
  • Notes of a restless man. Daily records 1995 to 2000. Berlin: Frank & Timme 2014. ISBN 978-3-7329-0088-6
  • The dance in chains. Novel. (New edition) Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2015. ISBN 978-3-86813-026-3
  • When the eagles come. Novel. (New edition) Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2015. ISBN 978-3-86813-028-7
  • The return of the wolves. Novel. (New edition) Berlin: Edition Noack & Block 2015. ISBN 978-3-86813-029-4

Honors

literature

  • Renate Windisch-Middendorf: The man without a fatherland: Hans Bergel - life and work . In: Thede Kahl and Larisa Schippel (eds.): Forum: Romania . tape 5 . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86596-275-1 .
  • Techniques of manipulation - tehnici de manipulare . In: Half-yearly publication - hjs-online , February 1, 2013.
  • 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.
  • Michaela Nowotnick: The inescapability of biography. The novel “Red Gloves” by Eginald Schlattner as a case study on Romanian German literature. Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50344-4 .
  • William Totok : empathy for all victims. Eginald Schlattner, a life in times of dictatorial rule. In: Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics. Volume 24, Issue 1–2, 2012, pp. 181–198.
  • Götz Kubitschek : Home twice lost - An exchange of letters with Hans Bergel . Sezession 56, October 2013, pp. 36–41.
  • Klaus Popa : Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. Online encyclopedia of ethnic German Southeast Europe. Letter BS 28-40 ( online ).
  • Raluca Radulescu: The literary work of Hans Bergels. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2015.
  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Popa : Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa , entry Bergel Hans
  2. ↑ a b Götz Kubitschek : The home lost twice - an exchange of letters with Hans Bergel . Sezession 56, October 2013, pp. 36–41 ( online )
  3. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
  4. ↑ adz.ro , ADZ , Ralf Sudrigian: Hans Bergel - honorary citizen of Rosenau , October 16, 2012
  5. ^ Siebenbürgische Zeitung Andreas Gryphius Prize to Hans Bergel
personal data
SURNAME Bergel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Râșnov , Transylvania