Hans Fink (publicist)

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Hans Fink

Hans Fink , pseudonym: Peter Schmidt or Herbert Star (born May 2, 1942 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) is a Romanian-German journalist and publicist from the ethnic group of the Banat Swabians .

Life

Hans Fink attended the practice school of the German teacher training institute in Josefstadt , then the Nikolaus-Lenau-Lyzeum and then studied (1959–1964) German and Romanian at the Western University of Timisoara . The topic of his diploma thesis was peculiarities of the Temeswarer German colloquial language .

In 1965 he moved to Bucharest and worked as an editor for the German-language newspaper Neuer Weg until 1991 . His areas of expertise were education and teaching. The regular monitoring of the country's stage of the essay contest of the German Olympics inspired him to collect texts for an anthology in 1989 Kriterion publishing house published My house, my land, my sky. Essays by students in grades V-XII . The collection, which was edited by the German teacher Ute Rill from Schässburg , contained 150 texts and was unique in Romania.

He has lived in Germany with his family since 1991.

From 2005 to 2007, Hans Fink and Hans Gehl collected texts for an anthology about the life of Germans in Romania after the Second World War , which appeared in 2014 and comprises 70 texts.

Book publications

  • Yes and no comrades! Romanian Germans tell. From the Second World War to the fall of the Iron Curtain , edited by Hans Fink and Hans Gehl, IKGS-Verlag, Munich, 2014 (Scientific Series, Vol. 124), 750 pages, 39.50 euros, ISBN 978-3-942739-03 -0
  • A honey thread of logic / The basic concepts from the cheerful side , Kriterion-Verlag, Bucharest, 1989, ISBN 978-973-26-0050-4 ; ISBN 9732600500
  • Cheerful grammar / How to play with words , Kriterion-Verlag, Bucharest, 1987; IFB-Verlag, Paderborn, 2006, ISBN 3-931263-61-4 ; ISBN 978-3-931263-61-4 .
  • Why is the water wet? / What Children Ask - How Parents Answer , Kriterion-Verlag, Bucharest, 1986;
  • The fairy tale mill / A novel for children , Ion Creangǎ-Verlag, Bucharest, 1985;
  • Paula in Lexikonstadt / A central grammatical fairy tale , Ion Creangǎ-Verlag, Bucharest, 1984
  • My child, a sorcerer's apprentice / Eight essays on educational issues with examples from the most beautiful literature , Kriterion-Verlag, Bucharest, 1983;
  • Special features of the Temeswar German colloquial language , diploma thesis, Timisoara, 1965

Journalism (selection)

  • How your child learns to joke , In “People and Culture” Bucharest. June – November 1983.
  • The press for class. The contribution of the German press in Romania to the promotion of teaching in the mother tongue . in: Banatica, No. 3–4 / 1997, pp. 43–62.
  • Behind the scenes of the 'New Way'. Memories of a Bucharest German daily newspaper . in: History, present and culture of the Danube Swabians, issue 9/1998. Sindelfingen 1999. pp. 175–204 and in the series 60 years NW / ADZ in the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Romania.
  • Among wolves. The so-called compromises at the time of the communist dictatorship . in: Banater Post, Issues No. 1–4 / 2008, January 5th and 20th, February 5th and 20th, 2008.
  • As clear as Bega water, old as the cathedral church. The Timisoara colloquial German as a form of language between 'Herrisch' and 'Schwowisch'. Lecture given at the 46th cultural conference of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft in Sindelfingen in November 2010. In: “Banater Stadtkultur. Timisoara - the cultural center of the Banat Swabians (I) ”. Edited by Walter Engel and Walter Tonţa, Stuttgart 2011.
  • Timisoara as a cultural center of the Banat Germans after the Second World War . in: Banater Zeitung, March 9 - May 4, 2011.
  • Prehistoric Wasserbauer: Experts of the late Bronze Age in the oral tradition , in: Schriftenreihe der Frontinus-Gesellschaft, Issue 29, 2014, pp. 141–162.
  • In the yoke of the nomenklatura / Forty years of indoctrination (1) In: Banater Post, July 10, 2013.
  • Read between the lines, told behind closed doors / Forty Years of Indoctrina-tion (2) , In: Banater Post, August 5, 2013.
  • Don't get caught! The “eleventh commandment” in real socialism / Forty Years of Indoctrination (3) , In: Banater Post, August 20, 2013.
  • Behind the scenes of the war. Romania and Hungary in the crosshairs of the great powers , lecture, 49th cultural conference of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft, November 2013. In: “The Banat Swabians and the First World War. War events and effects on the Banat ”, editors Walter Engel and Walter Tonţa, Stuttgart 2014.
  • The supra-regional cooperation of German intellectuals with a focus on schools in communist-ruled Romania. , Lecture, Working Group for Transylvanian Cultural Studies, May 9, 2015 in Munich. In: "Monthly journal of the cultural and adult education association" German Lecture Series Reschitza ", No. 7, 2015, pp. 95-107.
  • When the ballroom was too small. A mosaic of Romanian-German cultural life after the Second World War (with a Banat list) . In: “Monthly publication of the cultural and adult education association, German Lecture Series Reschitza”, No. 4, 2014, pp. 72–99.
  • Schools with German as the language of instruction and the possibility of studying for the Banat Swabians in Romania . In: "Danube Swabian History". Vol. 4, Munich, 2015. pp. 254-271.
  • The Romanian girl's spinning room and its parallels in magical fairy tales. In: memoria ethnologica, Baia Mare, Romania, No. 56–57, July – December 2015, pp. 22–35.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Th. Breit Druck + Verlag GmbH, 1992 Marquartstein, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
  2. ↑ banaterra.eu , Hans Fink
  3. ↑ banaterra.eu , Hans Gehl quotes Fink's diploma thesis in his article: Special features of the Temeswarer German colloquial language
  4. ↑ banaterra.eu , As clear as Begawasser, old as the cathedral
  5. ↑ banaterra.eu ( memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Timisoara as a cultural center of the Banat Germans after the Second World War
  6. ↑ banaterra.eu ( Memento from February 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), When the ballroom was too small
  7. ↑ banaterra.eu ( memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), How attitudes towards school and studies changed after the Second World War.

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personal data
SURNAME Fink, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Peter (pseudonym); Star, Herbert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania