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The Neue Banater Zeitung was a German-language newspaper in Romania , which appeared in Timișoara ( German  Temeswar ). The newspaper was founded in 1968 and was called Neue Banater Zeitung. Organ of the District Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (RKP) and the Temesch District People's Council . From 1969 the paper was called Neue Banater Zeitung. Organ of the district committee of the RKP . Since November 1, 1993, a supplement appears in the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Romania under the name Banater Zeitung .

history

The German-language newspaper "The Truth", which had existed since 1957, was renamed the Neue Banater Zeitung (NBZ) on February 21, 1968 . Thomas Krause summarized the NBZ's program from 1968 to 1993, especially during the communist period up to 1989: “Open party politics are represented on the first pages, minority interests come primarily in the vernacular pages, the [first monthly, later every fortnight, then weekly] "Pipatsch" ( High German : Klatschmohn ), and the promotion of "modern" approaches is to be achieved through the establishment of special pages. In addition, there is a kind of hidden political propaganda, which today can be described with the term " placement ". "

The NBZ usually consisted of four to six pages and appeared every day except Mondays. In 1970/1971 it had a print run of 40,000 copies. Young authors were able to publish their first literary works on the student website, which appeared weekly until 1974. Between 1969 and 1971, about thirty authors made their debut, including some of the founding members of the literary group “ Aktiongruppe Banat ”. Herta Müller, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, also published here; The publication of her short story Das Schwäbische Bad from her later volume Niederungen in the NBZ in 1981 sparked sometimes violent polemics among the readers. While intellectuals “praised the critical and linguistically innovative presentation”, Müller's satire was disapproved in a heated letters to the editor by their fellow citizens from the ranks of the Banat Swabians , who felt “exposed, humiliated and insulted” and Müller's texts as “ dirtying the nest ” or “vilification” " Recordings. In a letter to the editor printed on August 16, 1981 , it was said: "The [Banat] Swabians are a proud people, no Herta Müller, no NBZ editorial team will be able to change them, but they will certainly make them angry!"

The “ Arader Kurier”, the “Heideblatt” from Jimbolia (German Hatzfeld ), the “Aranka Post” from Sânnicolau Mare (German Groß Sankt Nikolaus ), the “Reschitzaer Nachrichten” from Reșița and the “Lugoscher Anzeiger” appeared as additional local supplements Lugoj .

After the NBZ appeared as an organ of the district committee of the Romanian Communist Party (RKP), its editors-in-chief and editors were members of the RKP.

Editors-in-chief of the NBZ were:

Nikolaus Berwanger was editor-in-chief of the Neue Banater Zeitung from 1969 to 1984
  • Nikolaus Berwanger (1969–1984) did not return to Romania from a business trip to the Federal Republic of Germany .
  • Erwin Lessl (1985)
  • Maria Stein (1985–1990)
  • Anton Palfi (1990)
  • Gerhard Binder (1990–1993) changed the title of the sheet.

NBZ editors , around twenty from 1969 until shortly after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , including:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Packi: History of Timisoara ., 2002
  2. ^ Peter Motzan: The Romanian German Literature in the years 1918-1944. Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1992, p. 110.
  3. ↑ Thomas Krause: "The foreign races through the brain, nothing ...": Images of Germany in the texts of the Banat authors' group (1969–1991). (= Studies on Travel Literature and Imagology Research, Volume 3). P. Lang, 1998, ISBN 3-631-33399-4 , p. 296, here p. 57.
  4. ^ A b Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Katharina Kilzer: When Herta Müller received the Müller Guttenbrunn Prize . October 9, 2009.
  5. ↑ a b Der Spiegel : Customs and Grounds , March 15, 1971.
  6. ↑ William Totok : The compulsions of memory. Records from Romania. Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-88506-163-5 , p. 202, here p. 61.
  7. ↑ Eckard Grunewald (Red.): Reports and Research - Yearbook of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe . Volume 11, section “The Truth / Neue Banater Zeitung”, Munich, 2003, p. 156.
  8. ↑ Renate Rechtien, Karoline From Oppen: Local - Global Narratives . Edition 68 of German Monitor, Rodopi, 2007, ISBN 90-420-2261-2 , p. 335, here p. 300.
  9. ↑ Focus , Hajo Steinert : School of Fear , 42/2009.
  10. ↑ Paola Bozzi: The Strange Look . P. 48.
  11. ↑ a b Reports and Research 11/2003 . Oldenbourg Verlag, ISBN 3-486-56742-X , p. 396, here p. 154–156.
  12. ↑ 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 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.banaterra.eu
  13. ↑ Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe : Encounters with Romanian and Romanian-German writers ( memento of August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Section Eduard Schneider
  14. ^ Uniunea Scriitorilor din România - Filiala Timișoara: Balthasar Waitz
  15. ↑ Heinz Vogel: Triebswetter im Banat , section Triebswettere personalities
  16. ^ Banat cultural area: Banat personalities