Oscar Walter Cisek

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Oscar Walter Cisek (born December 6, 1897 in Bucharest ; † May 30, 1966 there ) was a German-speaking Romanian - German writer and diplomat. He wrote short stories, novels, poems and essays.

Life

After attending the German Evangelical School in Bucharest, Cisek studied German and art history in Munich . From 1923 he worked in Bucharest as an art critic for Romanian magazines. From 1930 he was in the diplomatic service of the Romanian monarchy and until 1940 as press and cultural council in Vienna , Prague , Berlin and in 1946/47 as consul general in Bern .

After the fall of the monarchy, he went to prison, was rehabilitated and lived as a writer in Bucharest. Shortly before his death, he was awarded the Ion Creanga Prize of the Romanian Academy. He was a corresponding member of the German Academy of the Arts Berlin / GDR .

Works

  • The tartar. Narratives . Enoch publishing house, Hamburg 1929.
  • Inconvenient love . Publishing house Enoch, Hamburg 1932.
  • The other voice. Poems . Jess-Verlag, Dresden 1934.
  • At the gates. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1950.
  • The brushwood fire. Novel . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1961/1964
  1. Crișan. 1961.
  2. Horia . 1964.
  • Endless electricity. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1981, ISBN 3-518-37224-6 (reprint of the Berlin 1937 edition).
  • The missing face. Narratives . Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88356-166-5 .

literature

  • Gertrud Gregor-Chirita: The sound structure of the prose Oscar Walter Ciseks , Univ. Diss., Bucharest 1977 [maschschr.].
  • Klaus Hensel: Cisek, Oscar Walter . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon . Lexikon-Verlag, Munich 1989, Vol. 2, pp. 418-419.
  • Roxana Nubert : Oscar Walter Cisek as a mediator between German and Romanian culture . Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 3-89073-732-3 .
  • Annemarie Podlipny-Hehn: Language and style in Oscar Walter Cisek's literary works , Univ. Diss., Timisoara 1990 [maschschr.].
  • Heinrich Stiehler: Paul Celan , Oscar Walter Cisek and contemporary German-language literature in Romania. Approaches to a comparative sociology of literature . Lang publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1979 [zugl. Univ. Diss., Frankfurt am Main], ISBN 3-8204-6532-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cisek, Oscar Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian German writer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1966
Place of death Bucharest