Petru Dumitriu

Petru Dumitriu (born May 8, 1924 in Baziaş , † April 6, 2002 in Metz ) was a Romanian writer.

Life

Dumitrius father was an officer in the Romanian army. His mother was a native Hungarian. The majority of the family spoke French. So French became Dumitrius' 2nd language, which he learned in childhood. After attending school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philosophy with a Humboldt scholarship at the University of Munich . When Romania changed front in World War II , the course was interrupted in 1944. From 1956 Dumitriu was director of the state publishing house for literature in Bucharest and from 1958 president of the publishing council at the Romanian Ministry of Culture. In 1960 Dumitriu fled via the Federal Republic of Germany to France , where he settled in Metz . He only returned to his homeland in 1996.

Dumitriu became known in Germany for his two-volume work "Die Bojaren". In 1960 the first volume was published with the title "Der Familienschmuck", and in 1962 the second volume with the title "Freuden der Jugend". In the family novel, Dumitriu processes the history of his home country up to the end of the Second World War .

As a screenwriter, he also worked on the filming of his own and other people's material. "The family jewelry" was filmed in the GDR as early as 1957 .

Awards

• 1949, 1952 and 1955: Romanian State Prize for Literature
• 1949: working medal
• 1954: Order of Labor
• 1959: Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania

Works

• Enmity . Translated from Romanian by Leonore Renn, Staatsverlag, Bucharest, 1949
• Wolf hunting . Youth Publishing House, Bucharest, 1950
• Sowing and harvesting . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1952
• June nights . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin, 1953
• The canal . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin, 1953
• Petrel . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin, 1957
• The boyars. Part 1: The family jewelry . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1960
• The boyars. Part 2: joys of youth . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1962
• Last Judgment meeting point . Fischer library, Frankfurt a. M., Hamburg, 1962
• Incognito . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1963
• Far west . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1963
• The transmodern . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1965
• The Sardinian smile . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1967
• The man with the gray eyes . Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1972

Web links

• Literature by and about Petru Dumitriu in the catalog of the German National Library
• Petru Dumitriu in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Petru Dumitriu in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• LA MOARTEA LUI PETRU DUMITRIU . April 2, 2002, accessed August 7, 2012 (Romanian).
• TABEL CRONOLOGIC , accessed August 7, 2012 (Romanian).