Stefan Sienerth

Stefan Sienerth (born March 28, 1948 in Dârlos , Sibiu County , Romania ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

Stefan Sienerth attended elementary school and grammar school in Mediasch and studied from 1966 to 1971 at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj . He then worked as an assistant at the Pedagogical Institute in Neumarkt and in 1975 moved to the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu . Sienerth was a member of the Romanian Communist Party and received his doctorate in 1979 from the University of Bucharest . 1986–1990 he worked at the Center for Social Sciences in Sibiu and then moved to Germany. There he worked at the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe at the LMU Munich , whose director he became in 2005 and remained until his retirement in 2013.

History of Transylvanian-German Literature. From the beginning to the end of the 16th century. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1984.
Contributions to Romanian-German literary history. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1989, ISBN 973-35-0044-5 .
History of Transylvanian-German Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1990, ISBN 973-35-0146-8 .
Reading offer and book circulation in Transylvania between humanism and the Enlightenment. In: Detlef Haberland (Hrsg.): Book and knowledge transfer in East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the early modern period. Contributions from the conference at the University of Szeged from 25. – 28. April 2006. Munich 2007.
Studies and essays on the history of German literature and linguistics in Southeast Europe. IKGS, Munich 2008.
- Volume 1: Theoretical reflections and overview work. Contributions to German literature in Transylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries and the history of Transylvanian-Saxon German studies. ISBN 978-3-9809851-8-5 .
- Volume 2: Contributions to German literature in Southeastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. ISBN 978-3-9809851-9-2 .

Truth of bread. Anthology of Transylvanian-German poetry from the turn of the century. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1980.
Wintergreen. Anthology of Transylvanian-German poetry from the second half of the 19th century. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1978.
Georg Hoprich : Poems. Edited from the estate, criterion: Bucharest 1983
Life a sea. Anthology of Beginnings. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1986.
Hermann Klöß : Autumn tones. Poems, dramas and a story. Issued from the estate. Kriterion, Bucharest 1989, ISBN 973-26-0120-5 .
Critical texts on Transylvanian-German literature. From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-88356-098-7 .
"That I was born into this room ..." Conversations with German writers from Southeast Europe. Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88356-125-8 .
with Eckhard Grunewald: German literature in eastern and south-eastern Europe. Concepts and methods of historiography and lexicography. Conference Marbach 7. – 9. Dec. 1995. Munich 1997 (= publications of the Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk, series B: Scientific works. Volume 69).
with Peter Motzan : The German Regional Literature in Romania (1918–1944). Positioning, research paths, case studies. Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88356-112-6 .

Transylvanian stories. with illustrations by Renate Mildner-Müller. Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88356-165-7 .

with Gerhardt Csejka : Vexierspiegel Securitate. Romanian-German authors in the sights of the communist secret service , Regensburg 2015 ( review in the annotated bibliography of political science )

George Guţu, Ioana Crăciun, Julia-Karin Patrut (eds.): Minority literature - border experience and reterritorialization. Festschrift for Stefan Sienerth. (= GGR contributions to German studies. Volume 19). Paideia, Bucharest 2006.