Johann Székler

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Johann Székler (* 1902 in Lugoj , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † 1997 in Timișoara , Romania ) was a Romanian director of the German State Theater in Timișoara and representative of the Romanian-German minority in the People's Republic and Socialist Republic of Romania .

Life

Székler, who came from the Banat Swabian ethnic group , was with fourteen other representatives of the Romanian-German minority of the People's Republic of Romania from 1949 to 1953 a member of the German Antifascist Committee for Romania .

In 1959, Székler, along with the journalist Nicolae Cîmpeanu and the professors Heinrich Feichter and Fridolin Klein, was a member of an expert commission chaired by the Germanist Stefan Binder from the Western University of Timișoara , which in 1959 carried out the literary works of the five arrested Transylvanian-Saxons for the Romanian secret police Securitate Authors Wolf von Aichelburg , Hans Bergel , Andreas Birkner , Georg Scherg and Harald Siegmund examined. In the Kronstadt writers ' trial, the authors were sentenced by a military court to between 10 and 25 years of forced labor on charges of having formed an anti-systemic association and circulating anti-regime literature.

On July 3, 1968, a "consultation at the Central Committee (ZK) of the Romanian Communist Party (RKP) with scientists and cultural workers from the ranks of German nationality" took place, in which Johann Székler also took part. As a result, the Council of Working People of German Nationality was founded.

From 1956 Székler was director of the German State Theater in Timișoara. For Harald Siegmund, who was released from political prison in 1962, he largely gave free rein to the theater. When other politically outlawed people like Rudolf Hollinger came into play at the theater, Székler's position and ability to act were restricted. He was hardly accessible to innovations, but the "old rituals" - also due to the relatively liberal political development in the first years of government under Nicolae Ceaușescu - were no longer acceptable. Székler retired in 1971, but continued to take an active part in the development of the theater afterwards. Bruno Würtz succeeded him in 1972.

Theater performances (selection)

  • After the storm , Timișoara premiered November 15, 1957, as an author
  • Little Red Riding Hood , premiered in Timișoara March 18, 1960
  • Puss in Boots , premiered in Timișoara April 24, 1961
  • Good mood in the luggage , premiere Timișoara December 19, 1962, as author, adaptation
  • Cinderella , premiere Timișoara November 19, 1967, as author together with Grete Gross (pseudonym of Irene Mokka )
  • He wants to make a joke , premiere Timișoara December 25, 1968
  • Sappho (Grillparzer) , premiered in Timișoara November 26, 1969, as stage director
  • Colorful evening , premiere Timișoara February 11, 1970, as a writer and stage director
  • Der g'scheite Franzl , Premiere Timișoara May 15, 1970
  • Sleeping Beauty Premiere Timișoara October 20, 1970, stage editing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Fassel : Das Deutsche Staatstheater Temeswar (1953–2003): from supra-regional bearers of identity to experimental theater , LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 3-643-11413-3 , 575 p., P. 139ff
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel : Purposefully proletarianized. With traces of fascism , issue 12/1949, March 19, 1949
  3. ↑ Hannelore Baier : The "Antifa" and the "New Way". Some of the history of the German Antifascist Committee. In: General German newspaper for Romania , January 15, 2009
  4. ^ National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Securitate , P 000331, Vol. 3, pp. 103-109. In: Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics : Securitate and Party , October 15, 2011
  5. ↑ Peter Motzan, Stefan Sienerth , Andreas Heuberger: Words as Danger and Danger , Verlag Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich, 1993, 443 pp., Pp. 309-315
  6. ^ Hannelore Baier : The year 1968 and the German minority ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Hans Fink : Timisoara as the cultural center of the Banat Germans after the Second World War ( memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.banaterra.eu archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2010
  8. ^ Hans Kehrer : Last curtain for Hans Lindner In: Banater Post , issue 22 of November 20, 2004
  9. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: After the Thunderstorm, German Theater - Timișoara, November 15, 1957
  10. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Rotkäppchen, German Theater - Timișoara 03/18/1960
  11. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Puss in Boots, German Theater - Timișoara, April 24, 1961
  12. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Good mood in the luggage, German Theater - Timișoara, December 19, 1962
  13. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Cinderella, German Theater - Timișoara October 19, 1967
  14. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: He wants to make a joke, German Theater - Timișoara December 25, 1968
  15. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Sappho, German Theater - Timișoara, November 26, 1969
  16. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Bunter Abend, German Theater - Timișoara February 11, 1970
  17. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Der g'scheite Franzl, German Theater - Timișoara May 15, 1970
  18. ↑ cIMeC - Institute for Cultural Memory, Bucharest: Dornröschen German Theater - Timișoara October 20, 1970


personal data
SURNAME Székler, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian director of the German State Theater in Timișoara and representative of the Romanian-German minority in Romania
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugoj , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1997
Place of death Timișoara , Romania