Irene Mocha

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Irene Mokka (born August 28, 1915 in Temesvár , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † February 13, 1973 in Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania ) was a German-speaking Romanian writer , poet and pianist .

Life

Her maternal grandfather, Eduard Hermann , came from Broos . He founded the first scale factory in Timisoara in the 19th century, while his brother ran a safe factory in Chicago . Her father Ferdinand Albert was a church painter. Under her maiden name Irene Albert , she was a well-known piano interpreter from a young age. In 1939 she married the high school teacher Stefan Fassel , who died on April 30, 1944 in the service of the Romanian army in the Crimea during World War II . Irene had two children with him, Heike (born January 25, 1944) and Horst Fassel .

After the death of her husband, Irene Fassel gave piano lessons and wrote literature for children and young people. Later she devoted herself to prose and poetry. In 1948 she married the actor and opera singer Hans Mokka .

On June 4, 1933, Irene began to write diaries. From 1948 to 1973 she kept an extensive diary in which she not only recorded her poetic moods and feelings, but also gave insights into the literary arena in Romania of those years. Irene Mokka spent most of her life in Timișoara; However, many notes were made in Transylvania, where the author stayed again and again, for example in Sighișoara (Schäßburg), Brașov (Kronstadt), Râșnov (Rosenau), Prejmer (Tartlau), Băile Tușnad (Bad Tuschnad), Cisnădioara (Michelsberg) and especially in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), mid and late 1972. Until 1960 she published under the pseudonym Grete Gross . Most of her work was published posthumously.

When the "German playgroup for songs and dances" was founded in Brașov in 1959, Irene and Hans Mokka took part in the 1959 performance of Beethoven's Fidelio , which Norbert Petri conducted. Together with Johann Székler she was the author of the play Cinderella , which premiered on October 19, 1967 at the German State Theater Timişoara .

Publications

  • Mama lui Lenau
  • Yearbook of my work (prose) , Editura de Stat, Bucharest, 1952
  • All wells are open , Romanian Fântânile toate stau deschise , Literatur Verlag, 1968, 118 pp.
  • Quieter insight. Poems , Editura Kriterion, Bucharest, 1970, 111 pp.
  • Assumptions. Poems , Romanian Presimțiri , Editura Facla, Timișoara, 1974, 45 pp.
  • Concerns. Fragments , Editura Criterion, Bucharest, 1974
  • The secret of the orchid , with Anghel Dumbrăveanu and Horst Fassel, Editura Facla, 1976, 106 pp.
  • The most beautiful poems , Editura Albatros, Bucharest, 1977
  • The blue moth. Fairy tale. Editura Facla, Timișoara, 1983, 85 pp.
  • Un cîntec fără sfîrșit , Cartea Româneasca, 1983, 98 pp.
  • Atâtea cuvinte nu-s , German  There weren't that many words , 1987
  • No bloom no way. Poems. Editura Kriterion, Bucharest, 1996, ISBN 9-73260-478-6 , 99 pp.

literature

  • Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter, Volume 23 , Verlag des Südostdeutsche Kulturwerk, Munich 1974, p. 38ff
  • Irene Mokka, Helge Hof : The keyword 2 volumes, poems and prose, Editura Kriterion, 1985
  • Irene Mokka, Horst Fassel : Diary 1948-1973 , Literatur Verlag, AT Edition, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-89781-128-6 , 347S.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 107620995
  2. ↑ a b c d Claus Stephani : Irene Mokka: Every poem is a cry for help. In: Siebenbürger Zeitung, January 20, 2008
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ildico Achimescu: Jurnalele Irenei . ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bănățeanul of February 2, 2006, in Romanian.
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Triebold: “My name is not among them.” Horst Fassel from Tübingen, to whom Herta Müller claims to be close to the Securitate, answers. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , April 22, 2010
  5. ↑ Susanne Führer: "Character assassination was committed against authors." Writer Richard Wagner attacks Banat Swabia. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 21, 2009
  6. ↑ Cinderella. German Theater - Timişoara. October 19, 1967. In: Institute for Cultural Memory (cIMeC) , Bucharest, in English
personal data
SURNAME Mocha, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albert, Irene; Fassel, Irene; Big, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian writer, poet and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Temesvár , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1973
Place of death Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania