Hans Thurn (journalist)

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Hans Thurn (also Ioannes Thurn , born July 12, 1913 in Temesvár , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † 2002 ) was a German translator , author and journalist .

Life

Thurn attended the German-speaking primary school in Yugoslavia, then a humanistic grammar school in Vienna, where he also passed a teacher’s exam. Between 1933 and 1942 he lived intermittently in Yugoslavia (inter alia as a war correspondent and interpreter). However, he spent most of his time in Berlin , not until 1933 at Schloss Köpenick , a home for German scholarship holders, from 1939 as a primary school teacher in Berlin-Weißensee, and later as a lecturer.

Thurn was a co-founder of the " renewal movement " and together with Gustav Halwax editor of the radical "Kampfblatt für Volkische Renewerung" Volksruf , which Jakob Awender published in Pančevo (German Pantschowa ). Thurn, also deputy of the youth leader of the Swabian-German cultural association of the German minority in Yugoslavia , was temporarily excluded from the federal government together with Jakobutzer, Gustav Halwax and Georg Henlein at the meeting on January 13, 1935 , because they were too radical with their National Socialist orientation Had taken positions.

He spent the years 1945 to 1952 in Yugoslav detention in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia . From 1957 to 1981 he was a Hungarian lecturer at the Finnish-Ugric seminar at the University of Hamburg , and since 1967 lecturer. He also wrote essays on the religious poetry of the Eastern Churches .

Publications

  • The emigrants: a choir play; To honor ancestors. 1786-1936. Schoweer Comradeship of the Renewal Movement, Schowe 1936.
  • Tsar Trojan. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1954.
  • The unfaithful servant agency of the rough house, Hamburg 1961.
  • Serbo-Croatian. Juncker, Stuttgart 1967, 5th edition.
  • The evergreen stone . Working group for German poetry, Göttingen 1973.

Thurn translated a. a. also works by the Nobel Prize winner for literature , Ivo Andric , and the playwright Imre Madách in the German language .

literature

  • Anton Scherer : Hans Thurn 65 years old. The man, the poet and translator. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter , 28, 1979, volume 3, pp. 161–165.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kasimir Geza Werner: Saat in Fremd Erde: an exile anthology. Bläschke, 1973. p. 125
  2. ↑ a b c d e literature by and about Hans Thurn in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b Imprint, issues 1–5. P. Tischler, 1983. p. 88
  4. ^ A b Klaus Popa : Thurn Hans Peter (1913–2002). (PDF) In: Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa -
  5. ^ Sepp Janko : Weg und Ende deutscher Volksgruppe in Jugoslavien Stocker, 1982. ISBN 3-7020-0415-7 , p. 34, 207
  6. ↑ Carl Bethke : (Not) a common language ?: Aspects of German-Jewish relationship history in Slavonia, 1900–1945. LIT Verlag, Münster 2013. ISBN 3-643-11754-X , p. 211
  7. ^ Johann Böhm : The German ethnic group in Yugoslavia 1918-1941: domestic and foreign policy as symptoms of the relationship between the German minority and the Yugoslav government. Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 3-631-59557-3 , p. 213
  8. ↑ Ingomar Senz : The Danube Swabians. Langen Müller, 1994. ISBN 3-7844-2522-4 , p. 84
  9. ^ Exclusions from the Kulturbund. A message from the federal management. In: Deutsche Zeitung , organ for the German minority in the Dravabanat. Number 8a, January 27, 1935. pp. 2, 3
  10. ^ New Schütz Society: Music and Church. Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1963. p. 272
  11. ↑ Nobel Prize. Appetite for details . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1961 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Horst Förster: Cultural dialogue and accepted diversity? Romania and Romanian language areas after 1918. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-7995-2508-4 , p. 114
personal data
SURNAME Thurn, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thurn, Ioannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Temesvár , Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 2002