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Romed Mungenast (born July 19, 1953 in Zams , Tyrol , † February 27, 2006 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian - Yenish writer .

Life

Romed Mungenast grew up in Zams (Tyrol) as one of eleven children of a Karrner family in a wooden barrack in a wet meadow, an exemplary place of exclusion. The grandparents had traveled before they were allowed to settle there. Now settled, the family still had to make a makeshift living from traditional small crafts such as basket weaving, broom binding and casual work. After eight years of attending school, Romed Mungenast initially worked as a shunting worker and later qualified as a shunting engineer.

He "was the first Austrian Yeniche who openly acknowledged his origins". In addition to his professional activity at the railway, he compiled a comprehensive archive on the history and situation of the Yeniche, which will be made accessible to the public in Landeck Castle . He gave lectures on the history of his group of origin at schools, universities and at cultural events.

He also emerged as a writer with German and Jenisch-language fiction texts. The “Jenische Reminiscences” are called his main work. He declined a scholarship from the Austrian PEN Club for his literary work and preferred to continue to work in his profession and in the railway workers' union.

In 2001 Mungenast was one of the founders of the first Yenish self-organization in Austria, the Yenish Cultural Association , from which he soon turned away, because - as he justified - massive social disadvantage led to "racist" tendencies among the victims. His founding participation was "a big mistake".

In 2003 he received the Tyrolean Medal of Merit . In 2004 he was awarded the honorary professorship of the University of Innsbruck by the Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil for his services to the history, culture and language of the Yenish . The umbrella organization for Swiss travelers, the Landstrasse bicycle cooperative , made him an honorary member.

Romed Mungenast died on February 27, 2006 after a long illness in Innsbruck.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mirjam Triendl , The anger laughs off my face. A portrait of the Yenish scientist and writer Romed Mungenast, in: Der Freitag, December 24, 2004.
  2. ↑ "Those who have been battered by society are often racist themselves as a result of withheld education and bad experiences.", In: Mirjam Triendl , Der Zorn laughs off my face. A portrait of the Yenish scientist and writer Romed Mungenast, in: Der Freitag, December 24, 2004.

Works

  • 1990:
    • Poems in: Austrian poetry and not a word of German , contemporary poetry of the minorities. Edited by Gerald Nitsche , Innsbruck: Haymon
    • Yenish reminiscences. In: Tirol for example, par exemple, per esempio, na primjer, örnegin Vienna
    • Morningshtearn. Die Österreichische Dialektzeitschrift, 5/1990, pp. 44–50
  • 1992 Yenish reminiscences. In: Gaismair Calendar, 1992 , p. 47
  • 1994 The Roller Schinaggler. The railroad worker. In: Gaismair Calendar, 1994 , p. 64
  • 1995
    • A beaver beaver license. In: Bridges . An intercultural reader. Edited by Gerald Nitsche. Vienna: Pädagogischer Verlag, 1995, pp. 43–44
    • Poems in: interim balance . 10 years of Linz Spring, literature and so on. Anthology. Ed .: Linz Spring. Grünbach: Stein Maßl, 1995
  • 1998 Yenish poems. In: Literature and Criticism , Salzburg, September 1998, pp. 77–78. (Dossier Sinti and Roma)
  • 1999 tines. Sign language of wanderers; Yenish reminiscences. In: Yearbook of Poetry 1999/2000 . Bent over the atlas. Ed .: Christoph Buchwald, Raoul Schrott. Munich: Beck, 1999, pp. 84-88
  • 2001 - Yenish reminiscences. Story (s), poems ; Mungenast, Romedius (ed.):; Landeck / Tirol: EYE, 2001; ISBN 3-901735-06-2

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personal data
SURNAME Mung branch, Romed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Zams
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2006
Place of death innsbruck