Hedi Hauser

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Hedwig Margarete "Hedi" Hauser , née Bittenbinder , (born January 26, 1931 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania , † July 20, 2020 in Hamburg ) was a Romanian-German children's book author .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1950, Hedi Hauser began her German studies in Bucharest , which she broke off after a few semesters. At times she worked as a proofreader for the German-language daily newspaper Neuer Weg . In 1952 she married Arnold Hauser .

From 1955 to 1968 Hedi Hauser worked as an editor for German-language books at the Bucharest youth publishing house. In 1969 she became head of the German department at the newly founded Kriterion Verlag in Bucharest, where she also oversaw the editorial offices for Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Tatar, Turkish and Yiddish. Here she worked until the publishing house closed in 1991 and published many co-productions with publishers in the GDR. When asked about her work at Kriterion Verlag, Hedi Hauser summarized in the Siebenbürgische Zeitung (Munich) on January 26, 2011: “It was not a matter of course that we were able to publish these books. It was not easy to navigate between what was strictly forbidden and what was just allowed. ” […] “ Romanian German poets [had] more freedom to express and publish their opinion than their Romanian colleagues. The government allowed them to do it within certain limits because they believed that it would have little influence on the people and would be well received in the West. “When asked whether she had any contact with the Romanian secret service Securitate , she replied:“ The Securitate was part of everyday life in the Bucharest cultural scene - and not only there - at least for people in managerial positions. “In 1971 she advocated the continued use of German place names after their Romanization.

Hedi Hauser was a member of the Romanian Workers' Party ( Romanian Partidul Muncitoresc Român ), which was renamed the Romanian Communist Party ( Romanian Partidul Comunist Român ) in 1965 . Until 1986 she was one of the "five [Romanian-Germans] full members of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party." The full members belonged as "representatives of German nationality [...] to the highest state bodies" . Hauser was a member of the plenary session of the RKP Central Committee on November 23, 1979. She took on the XIII. RKP party congress on November 22 and 23, 1984, in which Nicolae Ceaușescu was unanimously re-elected General Secretary of the RKP. Hedi Hauser was also a member of the parliament and one of the secretaries in the Grand National Assembly .

Hedi Hauser became famous for her children's books; but also wrote political texts such as B. “The symbol of our certainties” in the anthology “Honoring President Ceaușescu”: “ In this moment of unadulterated joy I wish the leader of our party and our state many years of fruitful activity, health and creativity, I wish him good luck in his lap Family and its people, our socialist nation. "

In 1991 she moved to Hamburg , where she worked for several years as secretary of the German-Romanian Society for Northern Germany (founded in 1995). She was also a volunteer at the Romanian Honorary Consulate General in Hamburg.

Awards

  • Order of Labor III. Class (Romania, 1971)
  • 1971 Cross of Merit on Ribbon , awarded by the then Federal President Gustav Heinemann for the preservation and care of German cultural assets in Romania
  • 1971 Children's Book Prize from the Romanian Writers' Union

plant

  • Forest community "Froher Mut" and other stories. Bucharest Youth Publishing House, 1957
  • Caleidoscope Bucharest Youth Publishing House, 1960
  • Now it's striking thirteen. Bucharest Youth Publishing House, 1962
  • A really great story. Bucharest Youth Publishing House, 1962
  • My house has many windows. Bucharest Youth Publishing House, 1965
  • The great chamomile dispute. Youth Publishers Bucharest, 1966, Ion Creangă Verlag Bucharest, 1979
  • The wishing ring. A reading and play book for children. Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1983
  • Little pimples, little pimples and the giants . Ion Creangă Publishing House Bukares ,. 1983
  • A fir is not a hornet's nest, Ion Creangă Verlag Bucharest, 1985
  • Hedgehog Stachelfritz on the move. Ion Creangă Publishing House Bucharest, 1989
  • The snuffy picture book. Hora Verlag Hermannstadt / Sibiu, 1999 ISBN 973-98681-7-7

Translations (selection)

  • Romanian poems - Arghezi , Blaga , Ion Barbu . Erdmann Verlag Tübingen, Basel, 1975
  • Alexandru Mitru - The Golden Chicken. Ion Creangă Publishing House Bucharest, 1980
  • Alexandru Mitru - The spoiled princesses. Children's book publisher, Berlin (GDR), 1983

literature

  • Karsten Kruschel : Hauser, Hedi , in: German Literature Lexicon 20th Century, Volume 15, Hauptmann – Heinemann, edited by Lutz Hagestedt, DeGruyter 2010, column 177–179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ sevenbuerger.de , Siebenbürgische Zeitung: German culture cultivated in communist Romania: Interview with Hedi Hauser , January 26, 2011
  3. ^ German Literature Lexicon 20th Century, Volume 15, Hauptmann – Heinemann, DeGruyter 2010, column 177.
  4. ↑ CNSAS: Membrii CC al PCR (1945-1989). Dicționary. CNSAS, Editura Enciclopedică, 2004 ISBN 973-45-0486-X (→ online )
  5. ^ National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives: The members of the RKP Central Committee (1945-1989). Encyclopedia. Bucharest Encyclopedia Publishing House, 2004
  6. ↑ Neue Banater Zeitung : Comrade Nicolae Causescu unanimously re-elected General Secretary of the party. The members of the Central Committee of the RKP. , Timișoara, Volume 23, No. 5277, November 24, 1979, p. 2
  7. ↑ Monica Barcan, Adalbert Millitz : The German Nationality in Romania , Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest, 1977, p. 55.
  8. ^ Karpatenrundschau : The XIII. RKP party convention - a new level party convention. Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu re-elected to the high office of General Secretary of the party. Vol. 17, No. 47, November 24, 1984, pp. 1-3
  9. ↑ Honor of President Ceaușescu. Writers and cultural workers speak up. Anthology on the 10th anniversary of the election of Comrade Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania. Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest, 1984, pp. 100-102.
  10. ↑ Decree no. 157/1971 privind conferirea unor ordine ale Republicii Socialiste România ( Romanian ). Retrieved June 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Hedi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauser, Hedwig Margarete (full name); Bittenbinder, Hedwig Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2020
Place of death Hamburg