Rolf Bossert
Rolf Bossert (born December 16, 1952 in Reșița ( Banater Bergland ), People's Republic of Romania ; † February 17, 1986 in Frankfurt am Main , Germany ) was a German-speaking writer , journalist , teacher and lecturer in Romania.
Life
Bossert's ancestors from Styria settled in the Banat in the 18th century . After graduating from high school, Bossert studied German and English at the University of Bucharest . In 1971 he made his debut with poems in the Bucharest magazine Neue Literatur ; In 1974 two of his poems appeared in the anthology: “Interview today. Young German poetry in Romania. ”Bossert was a co-founder of the literary group Action Group Banat , which existed from 1972 to 1975. From 1975 to 1979 Bossert worked as a German teacher in Buşteni . From 1979 to 1981 he worked as a cultural advisor at the German cultural center "Friedrich Schiller" in Bucharest. In 1981 he worked as an editor at Meridiane Verlag and from 1982 to 1984 as an editor at Kriterion Verlag .
In July 1984, Bossert and his family applied for permanent departure to Germany. Bossert subsequently lost his job and was banned from publishing. After an evening poetry reading, he was knocked down and his jaw was broken. The Romanian militia apologized to Bossert. In August 1984, Rolf Bossert was interrogated by the Romanian secret service Securitate and forced to sign a "warning protocol" which suspected him of propagating an anti-state stance with his texts.
At Christmas 1985 he was able to travel to Germany with his wife Gudrun and his two sons, but security officers searched his apartment before Bossert's departure and confiscated all manuscripts and work documents. Two months after his departure, Rolf Bossert was found lifeless under his open room window in a refugee home in Frankfurt am Main. The circumstances of his death remained largely unexplained.
Works
- Siebensachen , Bucharest: Kriterion, 1979
- Mi and Mo and Balthasar , Bucharest: Ion-Creangă-Verlag, 1982
- The circus , Bucureşti: Kriterion, 1982
- Red -backed shrimp , Cluj-Napoca: Dacia-Verlag, 1984
- No light again on the Milky Way , Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag, 1986
- Temporary landscape , Berlin-Kreuzberg: Edition Mariannenpresse , 1993
- I stand on the stairs of the wind. Collected poems 1972–1985 , Frankfurt am Main: Schöffling, 2006
- I stand on the stairs of the wind (Selected poems 1972–1985) - Stau pe treptele vântului (Poeme alese 1972–1985) , German-Romanian. Text selection and Romanian version by Nora Iuga. Bucureşti: Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2008
- At the price of a prefix. A selection of poems , ed. by Ernest Wichner, Berlin: Hochroth Verlag , 2009
Awards
- Poetry Prize of the Association of Communist Youth of Romania, 1979
- Children's Book Prize Ileana Cosînzeana , 1980
- Translation Prize from the Romanian Writers' Union, 1982
- Adam Müller Guttenbrunn Literature Prize, 1983
Web links
- Literature by and about Rolf Bossert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe : short biographies of writers, translators and literary scholars ( Memento of 9 August 2011 at the Internet Archive ) , Rolf Bossert
- Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics : 40 years of the Banat Action Group , April 2, 2012
- Frank Bossert: poetry of vital despair. On the 20th anniversary of Rolf Bossert's death .
- Michaela Schmitz: Verses with movingly simple lines . In: Deutschlandfunk from March 29, 2006
literature
- Astrid Schau: Life without a reason. Construction of cultural identity with Werner Söllner, Rolf Bossert and Herta Müller , Aisthesis Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-89528-379-7
- Diana Schuster: The Banat Authors' Group. Self-presentation and reception in Romania and Germany , Hartung-Gorre 2004, ISBN 3-89649-942-4
- Theo Breuer : Rolf Bossert: I stand on the stairs of the wind
- Jan Andrew Nilsen : Under hjulet . (Under the wheel. Encounter with the German-Romanian dissident and writer Rolf Bossert, 1984.) In: Statsfiender. Et østeuropeisk memento til vesten. Møte med opposisjonelle and others in the soviet / Russia, Lithuania, Romania and GDR . (Public enemies. An Eastern European warning to the West. Talks with opposition members and others in Soviet Russia, Lithuania, Romania and the GDR.) Dissident Forlag, Florø 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Der Spiegel : Obituary Rolf Bossert , February 24, 1986
- ↑ openlibrary.org
- ↑ Gerhardt Csejka : The "gentle guerrilla" and the painter's eye
- ↑ Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe : Short biographies of writers, translators and literary scholars ( Memento from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , Rolf Bossert
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bossert, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian writer, journalist, teacher and lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reșița , People's Republic of Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1986 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main , Germany |