Walter Wolf (journalist, 1947)

Walter Wolf (born May 26, 1947 in Sânpetru Mic , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Banater Post .

Life

In 1951 Walter Wolf was four years old when he was deported to the Bărăgan steppe to Mărculeştii Noi, which later became Viişoara. After his return from the abduction in 1956, he attended school in Periam and then the teacher training college at the Banatia in Timișoara . From 1967 to 1973 he studied German and Romanian at the Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara .

Wolf then worked as a teacher in Wolfsberg (Weidenthal) , Covaci , Sânpetru Mic and Periam. In Wolfsberg he met his wife Marianne, who comes from Sadova Veche and is also a teacher. Both moved to Aradul Nou when she started a job at the German school there. Here he worked from 1980 as a reporter in the Arad district for the daily newspaper Neuer Weg .

Wolf had already submitted an application to leave the country in 1971, which was granted to him one year after his employment contract was terminated in 1987. His Securitate file says that he was observed by the Romanian secret service for over four years. In Germany, from February 1989 to 2012, he was editor-in-chief of the Banater Post in Munich, the association newspaper of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft .

Publications (selection)

• The Banat and the Banat Swabians. Volume 5. Cities and Villages. With Elke Hoffmann and Peter-Dietmar Leber , Media Group Universal Grafische Betriebe München GmbH, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-922979-63-7 , 670 pp.
• Deported to the Bărăgan. With Walther Konschitzky and Peter-Dietmar Leber, Haus des Deutschen Ostens , Munich 2001.
• The vocabulary of the Rhine Franconian dialect of Kleinsanktpeter in the Banat. In: Banater Post, Munich 1993.
• Tradition kept alive. In: Banater Post, Vol. 40, No. 15, Munich August 5, 1995, pp. 1, 3.

Web links

• Peter-Dietmar Leber : The “Banater Post” shaped for two decades. In: Landsmannschaft der Banat Swabia from May 27, 2017.