Peter Barth (poet)

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Peter Barth (also Petrus Barth , born June 2, 1898 in Máslak ( German  Blumenthal ), today the Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † March 1, 1984 in Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania ) was a Romanian German-speaking poet and pharmacist .

Life

Barth's father was the sixth child of a peasant family who had immigrated from Alsace ; his mother Margarete, b. Mannherz, came from a family of craftsmen who immigrated from Riegel am Kaiserstuhl . At the age of three he lost his father. At the age of 11 he came as a pupil to a monastery of beggar monks, where he studied philosophy and theology and set himself the goal of becoming a priest. During the time of the Federative Hungarian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1919, he left the monastery, returned to his hometown and worked as a pharmacist. He received his diploma in Cluj . In 1919 he founded a German youth club in Bucharest. In 1920 he entered the Romanian military and attended the officers' school in Bucharest. For three years he was an assistant at the Cluj University of Applied Sciences, where he published several scientific papers, for example in the Biochemische Zeitschrift , Berlin and as a collaborator on the book History of Pharmacy in Transylvania and the Banat by Gyula Órient (also Iuliu Orient).

From 1930 he worked as a pharmacist in Oțelu Roșu , where his poetic work began. His first volume of poems Flammengarben was published in Timișoara in 1933. The literary scholar Heinz Kindermann became aware of Barth through his lyrical contributions that appeared in the Banater monthly books and included him in his anthology of German poetry Rufe über Grenzen , Berlin 1938, and presented him as a promising lyrical talent. The Transylvanian writer Harald Krasser (1906–1981) confirmed this judgment in the preface to his anthology of Romanian German poetry Herz der Heimat : “If anything today justifies the belief in a new poetry in Banat Swabia, it is the extraordinary appearance of Peter Barth. “Barth's poems were also published in Hans Diplich's Banater Blätter . Heinz Kindermann wrote the foreword to Barth's volume of poetry: "Die Erde Leben" (Earth Lives), which was published in 1939 by Luser-Verlag Vienna and Leipzig. Barth died in Timișoara in 1984.

In 1929 Barth married Kornelia Resch; their marriage remained childless. The couple adopted a son, Klaus.

Publications

  • Sheaves of Flame: Poems. J. Keller Verlag, 1933, p. 227.
  • The earth is alive! Süd-Ost series, volume 2, no. 8, Luser Verlag, 1939, p. 74.
  • Purple shadow play: poems. Kriterion-Verlag, Bucharest, 1971, p. 118.
  • I'm looking for the summer path.
  • Flake vortex.
  • Flounder ridge.
  • Under the sky of home. Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 3-8448-0112-X , p. 106

literature

  • Walter Engel : German literature in the Banat (1840-1939): the contribution of the cultural magazines to the Banat Swabian intellectual life. Julius Groos Verlag, 1982, ISBN 3-87276-280-X , p. 290

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Note from the German International Institute in Stuttgart from December 3, 1938. In: Klaus Popa : Barth Peter (1898-1984). In: Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa, 2010.
  2. ↑ Peter Barth (poet) . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  3. ↑ amazon.de : Short biography in the book “Unterm Himmel der Heimat”
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian German-speaking poet and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Blumenthal , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1984
Place of death Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania