Viktor Orendi-Hommenau

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Viktor Orendi-Hommenau (born June 13, 1870 in Elisabethstadt , Transylvania , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † February 24, 1954 in Bucharest , Romania ) was a journalist , writer , translator and cultural politician .

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His father Wilhelm Orendi was a pianist and his mother was Jeanette Farkas, Edle von Hommenau. He grew up from 1876 in Neumarkt am Mieresch with his uncle. Orendi-Hommenau was a teacher. From 1894 to 1895 he brought out the newspaper “Das kleine Universum” in Neumarkt. From 1895 to 1896 he edited the "Szász-Reener-Wochenblatt". As a freelance journalist, he also worked for the “Weißkirchner Volksblatt”.

At the request of Edmund Steinacker and Ludwig Kremling , he moved to Timisoara in 1901, where he published the “German daily newspaper for Hungary”. The paper was discontinued in March 1903. From 1903 to 1907 he published the weekly political paper “German-Hungarian People's Friend”. Viktor Orendi-Hommenau was a co-founder of the Hungarian German People's Party, founded in December 1906 . In 1906 he was a candidate for a member of parliament in the Lowriner constituency and in 1910 in the Lippaer . From 1909 to 1937 he published the magazine “Von der Heide. Illustrated monthly for culture and life ”in Timisoara and Bucharest.

In 1912 he was invited to Germany by the German School Association , where he spoke about the needs of Germans in Hungary in Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Koblenz, Frankfurt am Main and Tübingen. In 1915 he was threatened with treason because he had briefed Field Marshal Mackensen on the persecution of the Germans in Hungary in an hour-long audience . At that time he made contacts with important Romanian political figures.

After the Banat was divided into three , whereby the eastern part with Timisoara fell to Romania, he campaigned for the interests of the German minority in Romania . Orendi-Hommenau was a founding member of the German-Swabian Cultural Association in 1919 . In 1923 he became examination commissioner of the Romanian Ministry of Education at the German elementary schools in the Banat, and in 1930 press attaché in the Ministerial Directorate of Timisoara. In 1934 he moved to Bucharest.

Viktor Orendi-Hommenau was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Bucharest.

Awards

Works

  • Leaves and flowers, Saxon Regen 1895
  • The heath book. Almanac, Timisoara 1919
  • German poet from the Banat. Literary sketch. Anthology, Timisoara 1921
  • Of light and song. Selected poems, Timisoara 1922
  • Aryans and Teutons, Timisoara 1919
  • Memories of Germany, Timisoara 1920
  • Famous Swabians, Lugosch 1923
  • Romanian literature and folk art, Timisoara 1928
  • Yesterday and today. A small statistic, Timisoara 1928
  • What I wrote in the margin. Sketches and aphorisms, Timisoara 1930
  • Arpad Mill. A souvenir sheet, Timisoara 1931
  • Michael Eminescu. Selected poem in German translation, Timisoara 1932
  • Magyar. All too Adjar. A small contribution to the minority issue in Hungary, Bucharest 1940
  • Michael Eminescu: Tired Birds, Bucharest 1954 (translation from Romanian)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
personal data
SURNAME Orendi-Hommenau, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German journalist, writer, translator and cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Elisabethstadt , Transylvania , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1954
Place of death Bucharest , Romania