After the Second World War, the Romanian Germans retained their mother tongue. In the centers of Banat , Transylvania and Bucharest, a German-language literary scene developed with its own literary magazine alongside German-language daily newspapers.
Romanian German literature continued even after most of the Romanian Germans emigrated to Germany or Austria. Some German-speaking authors stayed in Romania. Some grammar schools in Romania teach in German, for example in the Banat in Timişoara ( German Timişoara ) around the Nikolaus-Lenau-Lyceum, the literary circle Die Stafette , founded by Annemarie Podlipny-Hehn , has formed.
Important representatives of Romanian German literature
The most important authors of the post-war period include the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature , Herta Müller , the members of the Banat Action Group , Oskar Pastior , as well as Franz Hodjak and others. Many Romanian-German writers were put under pressure and spied on by the Romanian secret service Securitate , others were recruited as informers or arrested and sentenced to years of forced labor (see also: Kronstadt writers ' trial ), and there were also some unexplained deaths.
Romanian-German writers working in the Banat
Albert Bohn - co-founder of the Banat action group , author of prose and poetry
Rolf Bossert - co-founder of the Banat action group , poet
Jan Cornelius - representative of humorous-satirical prose, he wrote poems, children's books and cabaret texts.
Gerhardt Csejka - essayist, as a literary critic he was close to the action group Banat .
Uwe Erwin Engelmann - wrote not only poetry but also short stories and short prose.
William Totok - co-founder of the action group Banat , author of numerous poems, essays, historical studies, film and theater chronicles, reviews and literary criticisms.
Richard Wagner - co-founder of the Banat action group , published poetry and prose.
Michaela Nowotnick: The inescapability of biography. The novel “Red Gloves” by Eginald Schlattner as a case study on Romanian German literature. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50344-4 .
Grazziella Predoiu: Romanian German literature and the dictatorship: "The past never lets you go". Volume 13 of the series Studies on German Studies, Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-830-01712-X , p. 139.
Olivia Spiridon: Investigations into Romanian-German narrative literature of the post-war period , Igel Verlag, Oldenburg, 2002, ISBN 3-896-21150-1 , p. 356.
