Ioan Slavici

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Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici (Romanian postage stamp 1973)

Ioan Slavici (born January 18, 1848 in Șiria , Romania , † August 17, 1925 in Panciu ) was a Romanian writer and journalist .

Life

Slavici were born in the village of Vilagos (today Șiria), near Arad , in that 1848 year of the revolution , which also had far-reaching effects in Transylvania (later part of the Habsburg Empire ). Until 1868 Slavici attended various schools in Transylvania (including the Piarist high school in Timişoara ), where either Hungarian or German was taught; Classes in Romanian were prohibited. After his study had finished, he left Transylvania and went to Budapest where he intended law to study. However, the following year financial difficulties forced him to return home and accept a job as a notary . During this employment, Ioan Slavici saved the money that should help him continue his studies.

In 1871 he went to Vienna as part of his military service . This was a crucial moment in the life of the future author, as it was there that he had the opportunity to meet the most important Romanian poet , Mihai Eminescu , who studied at the University of Vienna. Both became very good friends and Eminescu inspired Slavici in the development of his style and supported him in his work. In the same year Slavici had his literary debut in "Convorbiri Literare", the mouthpiece of the Junimea Society in Iași .

In 1872 Slavici had to interrupt his studies again due to financial difficulties. Two years later he moved to Iasi, where he attended the June gatherings. His first book, Novele din popor, a collection of short stories , was published in 1881. This included "Moara cu noroc" and "Budulea Taichii", two of his most famous works.

In 1882 he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy . In 1884 Slavici went back to Transylvania and was actively involved in the Romanian national movement and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Romanian National Party, the most important Romanian political forum in the region. Hungarian authorities sentenced Slavici to one year in prison for his nationalist attitudes. This was the first of many short stays in prison in Slavici's life, although some of them had nothing to do with lawsuits against his fellow journalists.

Six years later he moved to Bucharest , where in 1894 he began to publish the first parts of his most famous novel , "Mara". This was published as a single edition twelve years later. During this time he also worked as editor of the magazine "Vatra", which he published alongside George Coșbuc and Ion Luca Caragiale.

In 1909 Slavici began working for the pro-German newspaper “Ziua”. With the outbreak of World War I , his attitude brought him into conflict with other intellectuals who supported the Dreier Entente . On August 14, 1916, Romania joined the Dreier-Entente, with the result that a large part of Romanian territory, including Bucharest, was occupied by the German, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian troops in the winter of 1916. The Romanian government sought protection in Iași, while the Central Powers established an occupation regime for the occupied territories. Slavici worked with the military administration and was appointed editor of the official journal, the Bucharest Gazette. After the German withdrawal in November 1918, he was sued for his wartime activities and spent a year in prison while his reputation among intellectuals was forever damaged.

Slavici ended his life in Panciu in Vrancea County .

Works in German translation

  • Die Glücksmühle: Novella. Leipzig: Reclam 1945 ( Moara cu noroc: nuvela. )
  • The fairy of the dawn. Bucharest: Youth publishing house of the ZK d. VdWJ 1953
  • Novellas. Bucharest: Verlag Das Buch 1955
  • Stories. Bucharest: youth publishing house 1957
  • Mara: Roman. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 1960
  • Novellas from the people. Bucharest: Literature Publishing House 1961
  • Mother's ion. Bucharest: Jugendverlag n.d. [1963]
  • Floritza, the forest girl. Bucharest: Kriterion-Verlag 1973
  • The clever Pacala. Bucharest: Ion-Creanga-Verlag undated [1974 +?]
  • The girl from the woodland , in Romanian narrators , pp. 5–218, Zurich: Manesse 1968

literature

  • Anneli Ute Gabanyi: Slavici, Ioan . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 4. Munich 1981, p. 143 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Slavici, Ioan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Șiria , Romania
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1925
Place of death Panciu