Hans Liebhardt

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Hans Liebhardt (born January 30, 1934 in Großpold ; † September 30, 2017 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian-German writer and journalist .

Life and work

Liebhardt came from a family of Protestant peasants and was trained as a teacher in Schäßburg . Since 1952 he worked - with interruptions - as editor of the German-language daily newspaper Neuer Weg and its successor, the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania . From 1954 to 1959 Liebhardt attended the Bucharest literature institute " Mihai Eminescu ". From 1970 he headed the German-language domestic programs of the Romanian radio in Bucharest for ten years. There he stood up for Romanian German literature with great commitment "undogmatic and with an astonishing foresight" and offered up-and-coming writers a "benevolent forum" that encouraged them to experiment. Until his death, Liebhardt created German-language radio and television programs. The Bucharest stories that were broadcast on the German television program came from him . On the radio, he oversaw the two weekly series Who we are and what we want and contemporary history in anecdotes. Up until a few days before his death, Liebhardt wrote the latest news and short reports for the front page of the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania newspaper and was responsible for the local section.

After 1968 Liebhardt lived with the ethnologist, art historian and writer Roswith Capesius (1929–1984), former wife of Oskar Pastiors .

Act as a writer

Liebhardt published his first works of fiction in the 1950s. His early prose and three anthologies of Romanian-German prose edited by him, which are described as "still setting standards", are considered significant. His stories from the 1960s and 70s also show his artistic talent, which depicts the life of the Transylvanian Saxons in a humorous and vivid way. His autobiographical Weisskircher stories are highlighted, depicting the Transylvanian conditions of the post-war period in the form of a development novel "distanced ironically". His style is described as a "lyrical narrative that illustrates the local environment". Liebhardt's lyrical work is described as "less happy" .

In the 1980s, Liebhardt published much criticized praises of the Romanian head of state Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena in poetry . Stefan Sienerth , the former director of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe in Munich , rates this work as follows: (Liebhardt stepped) with contributions to the public ... that not only reveal a disgusting opportunism, but also of dubious artistic value are. Also Ingmar Brantsch believes the poems exceeded the limits of good taste. Nevertheless, he criticizes the "sometimes stubborn condemnation rhetoric" of Romanian German literary criticism. Brantsch points out that other writers, such as Richard Wagner , paid homage to the Ceaușescu regime and Marxism. Brantsch attributes this work of Liebhardt to the peculiarities of the Romanian-German mentality. Liebhardt himself stated that after his dismissal from the radio he wrote such texts simply so that he could find employment again as a newspaper editor.

Works (selection)

Novels and prose

  • Dreams and ways. Youth publishing house, Bucharest 1966.
  • The calf from the blue mountain. Youth publishing house, Bucharest 1967.
  • My grandfather's three deaths. Youth publishing house, Bucharest 1969.
  • Again and again Weisskirchen. Kriterion, Bucharest 1971.
  • All that was needed. Dacia, Cluj 1972.
  • The wondrous life of Andreas Weisskircher. Kriterion, Bucharest 1981.
  • Golden dream. Kriterion, Bucharest 1986.

Anthologies

  • Words and ways. Young German prose in Romania - an anthology. Kriterion, Bucharest 1970.
  • Words under the rainbow. German storytellers in Romania - an anthology. Albatros, Bucharest 1973.
  • Built on your word. German authors in Romania. ADZ-Verlag, Bucharest 2003 (published together with Josef Erwin Țigla )

Non-fiction

  • Ways of home. Reports, reports, interviews. Kriterion, Bucharest 1987.
  • Germans in Bucharest. ADZ-Verlag, Bucharest 2003.
  • In Bucharest and Old Romania. German traces still and still. ADZ-Verlag, Bucharest 2006.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADZ-Online - tirelessly at work. Hans Liebhardt died. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hanni Markel: Telling in Großpold. In: Martin Bottesch, Franz Grieshofer, Wilfried Schabus: Die Siebenbürgischen Landler. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99415-9 , p. 736.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ingmar Brantsch: Liebhardt, Hans. In: East German Memorial Days 2009. Personalities and historical events . Cultural Foundation of the German Expellees, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-88557-228-2 , p. 55.
  4. ^ Siegbert Bruss: Christel Ungar-Ţopescu. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung from September 1, 2005.
  5. ^ Homepage Radio Romania Bucharest (accessed on October 2, 2012).
  6. ↑ Konrad Klein: A woman who could not be broken: Grete Loew. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung from October 11, 2010.
  7. ↑ a b Stefan Sienerth: Liebhardt, Hans. In: Walter Myß (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Transylvanian Saxony. Wort und Welt Verlag, Thaur 1993, ISBN 3-85373-140-6 , p. 311.
  8. ^ Annett Müller: Farewell in installments. From the New Way to the General German Newspaper for Romania. Hora Verlag and Working Group Siebenbürgische Landeskunde eV, Hermannstadt / Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-929848-23-6 , p. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Liebhardt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Großpold
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2017
Place of death Bucharest