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Luzian Geier (* 1. October 1948 in Fair , People's Republic of Romania ) is a German biology teacher , journalist , local historian and editor in chief .

Life

Geier comes from the Banat Swabian ethnic group , his parents were master locksmith Peter Geier and Annamaria , née Pfleger; he grew up with three siblings. After primary school in Giarmata, he graduated from the Nikolaus-Lenau-Lyceum in Timișoara (German Timişoara ), where he met his wife Helene Simon , with whom he later had a son.

In 1969 he graduated from the Agricultural and Veterinary University of the Banat in Timișoara and then took up a position as a biology teacher in Grabaț (German Grabatz ). In 1970 he switched to the Neue Banater Zeitung (NBZ) as an editor under the pseudonym Ludwig Adler, specializing in information, local history and agriculture. He received his doctorate from the Academia Ştefan Gheorghiu in Bucharest through his distance learning journalism course . He was a member of the literary group "Adam Müller Guttenbrunn" , whose secretary he became in 1985.

In 1991 he and his family moved to Augsburg . Between 1992 and 1993 he worked at the Bucovina Institute in Augsburg as well as editor and publisher of the in-house magazine “Kaindl-Archiv”, and from December 1994 the editor in charge of the Buchenlanddeutsche newspaper “Der Südostdeutsche”. Together with Peter Krier , he developed concepts for exhibitions of the Bavarian State Association of the Banat Swabians, for example for the exhibitions “Slaves in Bărăgan: Exhibition on Deportation from the Banat to the Bărăgan Steppe of Romania” (2001) and “The Banat Swabians: Becoming and Change of a German ethnic group "(2003). Together with the managing director of the Bukowina Institute Ortfried Kotzian, he put together a series of lectures that began in 1990 with “The Germans in Romania” and continued from 1992 with “The Germans in the East”.

Publications

Geier published numerous articles on the history of the Banat and its culture and ethnography. At the cultural messenger and the local website of the NBZ he worked on the categories “This is what we are called in ...”, “Banat village musicians”, “... the school han”, “Archive photo”, “Village chronicle”. In 1978 he was co-editor of the NBZ's people's calendar . The volume Heide und Hecke published by Hans Gehl . Contributions to the folklore of the Banat Swabians , Facla Verlag, Timișoara, 1973 contains on pages 52-60 Geier's contribution "Homes of the homeland - a text sequence". The volume Schwäbische Familie, also published by Hans Gehl in 1981 at Facla Verlag . Contributions to the folklore of the Banat Swabians contains two contributions by Luzian Geier: “Banater inheritance customs” (p. 167–179) and “Swabian village music” (p. 180–201). Further publications appeared in the monthly magazine Volk und Kultur and in the weekly Karpatenrundschau . His diploma thesis was the Brief History of the Banat Press 1771–1981 , Bucharest 1981, with 130 pages. He was co-author and editor of the Tschakowa homeland book and the local family book annual fair .

Further selection:

  • The poet's grave in the fair , via Egidius Haupt, NBZ, July 29, 1979
  • Luther missionary in the Banat
  • Rare books by Coresi, Udrişte and Vukovici in Timisoara , NBZ, January 17, 1973
  • Old Turkish chronicle about Timisoara , NBZ, April 18, 1973
  • Cultural mediator Orendi-Homenau , NBZ, April 26, 1974
  • Grabatz and his local newspaper , NBZ, November 21, 1976
  • Perjamoscher journalist Alois Pirkmayer , Karpatenrundschau, February 6, 1976
  • Banat monthly journals for music care , NBZ, April 28, 1977
  • Poems "in the lively dialect" , about Bela Birkenheuer, NBZ, August 31, 1978
  • “Related to the original Gotthelf”, Jakob Stein on his 100th birthday , NBZ, September 28, 1978
  • Champion and dialect poet. On the 50th anniversary of Johann Anheuer's death , NBZ, December 12, 1978
  • Excellent composer, well-known conductor. About Hermann Klee. NBZ, November 12, 1978
  • Historian, journalist and cultural politician Franz Wettel (1854–1938) , Karpatenrundschau, March 2, 1979

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Semmelweis Association 1998, for its documentation "Heilwesen im Banat"

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personal data
SURNAME Geier, Luzian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biology teacher, journalist, local researcher and editor-in-chief
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Giarmata , People's Republic of Romania