Uwe Erwin Engelmann
Uwe Erwin Engelmann (born July 19, 1951 in Uihei , People's Republic of Romania , actually Erwin Josef Engelmann ) is a Romanian- German writer in the fields of poetry and short prose from the German-speaking minority of the Banat Swabians .
Life
Engelmann, son of the teacher Franz Engelmann and the teacher Anna Engelmann, b. Krumenacker, attended the school where both his parents taught in the first few years. His younger brother is the Magister Manfred Engelmann .
Engelmann later switched to the German-speaking Nikolaus Lenau Lyzeum in Timisoara and lived in the boarding school for three years. From 1970 to 1974 he studied German and English at the University of Bucharest . Until 1976 he was a teacher in Reschitza . He then moved to Siegen in the Federal Republic of Germany , where he still lives today. From 1980 to 2016 Engelmann was a teacher at the Städtisches Gymnasium Kreuztal with the subjects German and English.
His activity as an author began in 1969 with the publication of poems in German-language newspapers in Romania. He later commented on this: [...] Poems don't have to be complicated. Poems are snapshots and - to put it bluntly - you can write poems about anything - including diarrhea. In 1974 he was represented for the first time with poems in an anthology.
However, he stopped publication in his home country in 1974 because of the censorship in the communist regime. After seeing Alfred Kittner again in 1990, Engelmann decided to resume his interrupted literary work. In addition to poetry, Engelmann has been writing short stories and short prose since 1991: Just as others need the psychiatrist's couch, I need pencil and paper to reflect and cope with my everyday positions.
Publications
- And what else I wanted to tell you . Dipa, Frankfurt am Main , 1993
- I break out of my silence. Dipa, Frankfurt, 1997
- Village life in Southeastern Europe / Viața la țară in sudestul Europei. - Bilingual collection of poems (German / Romanian), together with Marcel Turcu - Mirton, Timișoara , Romania 2001
- Tin soldier , Geest-Verlag , Vechta-Langförden, 2007
- Engelmann et al .: In the shadow of my wing , Czernik Verlag / Edition L, 2009
- Because of taciturn , together with the poet regulars table Siegen , durchblick book series, 2010
Awards and dissemination
- Engelmann received a special prize at the international poetry competition in Benevento in 1995 and 1999 to 2002.
- His poem Village Life in Southeastern Europe has been translated into over 30 languages.
- In 2009 he received the Inge Czernik Prize for Poetry.
Activities and memberships
He was chairman of the literature department of the Artists' Guild of North Rhine-Westphalia until 2001 and is press attendant at the Siegen Society of Poets. He is also a member of the Free German Association of Authors and the International Exile PEN Club . He is also active in the moderation of various literary conferences, translation work (e.g. into Romanian, Italian, English, French and Bulgarian) and the promotion of young authors.
He has already given readings in Arad , Bonn , Bucharest , Cologne , Reșița , Timisoara , Trier and Wiesbaden , for example .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westfälische Rundschau of February 17, 2009
- ^ Claus Stephani (ed.): Survey today. Young German poetry in Romania. Selection and preliminary remark by Claus Stephani . Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1974, p. 34
- ↑ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/rumaenien/10633-wer-war-eigentlich-im-moga.html
- ↑ Westfälische Rundschau of January 14, 1998
- ↑ http://www.dichterstammtisch.de/ds_anthologie#more-80
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Web links
- Literature by and about Uwe Erwin Engelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engelmann, Uwe Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Romanian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uihei , Timiș County , People's Republic of Romania |