Mircea Dinescu

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Mircea Dinescu (born November 11, 1950 in Slobozia ) is a Romanian writer, editor and civil rights activist.

Life

At the beginning of his literary career Dinescu was hailed as a great talent ("Romanian Mayakovsky "). In 1971, 1976, 1981 and 1986 he was awarded the Romanian Writers' Union Prize for his poetry collections, the Eminescu Prize of the Romanian Academy in 1978 and the Poetry International Award from the Netherlands in 1989.

Because of his socially critical attitude, he soon became an enfant terrible and later fell out of favor with the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime . In 1985 he was banned from publishing. When the French newspaper Liberation printed an interview with him in March 1989, he also lost his job as an editor at the Romanian Writers' Union's România literară magazine and was placed under house arrest.

As the voice of the opposition, he was instrumental in the revolutionary efforts against Ceaușescu. On December 22nd, 1989, he announced the successful overthrow of the dictatorship from the balcony of the presidential palace. After the Romanian Revolution he became a member of the Council of the National Salvation Front and held the office of President of the Romanian Writers' Union from 1990 to 1996. In 1991 he became an honorary citizen of the University of Augsburg . He is one of the most influential writers in Romania .

In 2005 Dinescu co-founded the newspaper Gândul with Cristian Tudor Popescu .

Dinescu owns a restaurant in Bucharest and hosts the program Politică și delicatețuri on TVR 1 , in which he cooks and discusses with a prominent guest.

Works

Works in Romanian (selection):

  • Proprietarul de poduri (1976)
  • La dispoziția dumneavoastră (1979)
  • Democrația naturii (1981)
  • Exile pe-o boabă de piper (1983)
  • Rimbaud negustorul (1986)
  • Pamflete vesele și triste, 1990–1996 (1996)
  • O beție cu Marx (1996)
  • Corijent la cele sfinte (2004)
  • Cele mai frumoase, 101 poezii (2006)
  • Femeile din secolul trecut (2010)

Works in German translation:

  • Poems (1982)
  • Exile in Pfefferkorn (1989)
  • A Muzzle for the Grass (1990)
  • Poetry, Revolution and the New Europe. Speeches and texts on the occasion of the award of the honorary academic citizenship of the University of Augsburg. 1991.
  • Mircea Dinescu, poet and civil rights activist: New poems, documents, analyzes (2nd edition 1994)
  • I am the owner of the bridges ... poems (1997)

See also

literature

  • Dinescu, Mircea. In: Der Brockhaus, literature. 2nd Edition. Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-7653-0351-8 .
  • Mircea Dinescu: Exile in Pfefferkorn. 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​1989, ISBN 3-518-11589-8 . "Author information"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ inescu: Vintu a dorit sa cumpere Gandul, CTP sa impotrivit , ziare.com October 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ Mircea Dinescu , TVR1
personal data
SURNAME Dinescu, Mircea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian poet and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Slobozia