Hellmut Seiler

Hellmut Seiler (born April 19, 1953 in Rupea , People's Republic of Romania ) is a German writer, translator and satirist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Brașov , Hellmut Seiler studied German and English philology in Sibiu from 1972 to 1976 . He then worked as a teacher in Târgu Mureș .

In 1985, Seiler, who belongs to the German-speaking minority of the Transylvanian Saxons , applied for permanent departure to the Federal Republic of Germany . At the conference »German literature in Romania in the mirror and distorting mirror of the Securitate files«, which the IKGS organized at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on December 7th and 8th, 2009, he reported how he had left the teaching post based on this application was removed. At the same time he was banned from appearing as a writer or publicist.

In 1988 Seiler moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to his writing activities, he worked as a teacher at the commercial school in Backnang until 2019 .

In 2009, Seiler was able to inspect his files at the National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Securitate (Roman: CNSAS) in Bucharest , from which it emerged, among other things, that he was suspected of collaborating with the Federal Intelligence Service .

Seiler is a member of the Society for Contemporary Poetry , the Esslingen Artists' Guild and General Secretary / Managing Director of Exil-PEN (since 2014). He is the initiator of the "Rolf Bossert Memorial Prize" (founded in 2019).

Hellmut Seiler lives in Backnang.

Single track

The loneliness of the chairs . Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1982.
Luck has many names . Satires. Artists' Guild , Esslingen 2003, ISBN 3-925125-52-3 .

Blow forest. 77 poems and digressions . Poetry edition 2000 published by Buch & medi @, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-935284-44-6 .

Transylvanian apocalyptic . Poems. Dipa, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-7638-0342-4 .

The shark in my head . Stories. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2000, ISBN 3-934350-14-3 .

Attached to verses . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937139-32-6 .

Pădurea de interdicții. Poems in Romanian translation . Limes, Cluj 2007, ISBN 978-973-726-234-9 .

This defiant calm way . Poems and aphorisms. Edition Bärenklau, Oberkrämer 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-7274-6 .

Translations from Romanian

Dangerous switchbacks. Romanian poetry of the present . Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin 1998.
Rodica Draghincescu: Phenomenology of the winged sex . Poems. Edition Solitude, Stuttgart 2001.
Ioan Flora: The Danube - gently rising . Poems. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2004.
Emilian Galaicu-Paun: Yin Time . Poems. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2007.
Robert Serban: Home theater, with me . Poems. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2009.

Awards

2003: Irseer Pegasus
2000: Würth Literature Prize of the Tuebingen Poetics Lecturer
2000: Writer in Residence at the International Writers 'and Translators' Center of Rhodes
1999: Poetry Prize Artists' Guild Esslingen
1998: Prose Prize Artists Guild Esslingen

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Myss: Dictionary of Transylvanian Saxons . Edition Wort und Welt, Thaur 1993, ISBN 3-932413-09-1 , p. 467 .
↑ In Romania, before the political change, this measure was directed against all authors who had applied for permanent emigration to western countries, including teachers, journalists, engineers, doctors and the like. a. usually lost jobs.
↑ John Kravatzky: Monitored by the Securitate: Hellmut Seiler. Siebenbürgische Zeitung, October 14, 2009, accessed April 4, 2013 .
↑ Ingrid Knack: How the bug got into the apartment . In: Backnanger Kreiszeitung . January 12, 2010 ( online [accessed April 4, 2013]).

personal data
SURNAME	Seiler, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet, translator and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rupea , People's Republic of Romania

[1] Walter Myss: Dictionary of Transylvanian Saxons . Edition Wort und Welt, Thaur 1993, ISBN 3-932413-09-1 , p. 467 .

[2] In Romania, before the political change, this measure was directed against all authors who had applied for permanent emigration to western countries, including teachers, journalists, engineers, doctors and the like. a. usually lost jobs.

[3] John Kravatzky: Monitored by the Securitate: Hellmut Seiler. Siebenbürgische Zeitung, October 14, 2009, accessed April 4, 2013 .

[4] Ingrid Knack: How the bug got into the apartment . In: Backnanger Kreiszeitung . January 12, 2010 ( online [accessed April 4, 2013]).