Werner Kremm

Werner Kremm (born October 7, 1951 in Sânnicolau Mare ( German  Großsanktnikolaus ), People's Republic of Romania ) is a Romanian author and journalist .

Life

Kremm comes from the ethnic group of the Romanian-German Banat Swabians . He studied German and Romanian in Timișoara . He was a founding member of the literary group Action Group Banat , which existed from 1972 to 1975. The group of authors was temporarily tolerated, but later harassed by the Romanian secret service Securitate . Kremm withdrew from the literary public. Kremm remained as the only member of the group in Romania; the other members left for the Federal Republic of Germany until 1988 .

Werner Kremm then worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper "Neuer Weg", today the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Romania . Later he was the head of the editorial office of the Banater Zeitung . Among other things, he published in the Tagesspiegel and worked as a translator.

Kremm in the Romanian German discussion

Around 2010, suspicions against some Romanian German authors, including Oskar Pastior , of having worked with the Securitate increased.

In the resulting intellectual debate between Romanian German authors, Kremm said that if he were "absurdly offered a Pastior Prize , I would not accept it - precisely because I would not accept a prize that was ultimately donated by a former Securitate informant." at least had a role model function for young Romanian German literature, as well as for the action group . Kremm took the position that "a coming to terms [...] through Romania's writing intellectuality [...] is almost non-existent". After the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , he had hoped, “now the pigeonhole literature would finally be published. Nothing has happened: There was no literature in pigeon holes because Romanian intellectuality does not tend to be revolutionary in terms of mentality. "

literature

• William Totok : The Constraints of Memory. Records from Romania , Hamburg 1988
• Ernest Wichner (Ed.): A pronoun has been arrested. The early years in Romania. Texts by the Banat Action Group , Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Anton Sterbling : In the beginning there was the conversation . Reflections and contributions to the “Action Group Banat” and other works related to literature and art, Hamburg 2008

Web links

• Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics : Securitate mission on the invisible front , August 29, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Zeit : Troubled by the Securitate , November 19, 2010
2. ↑ Cicero : Kremm, Werner ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Banater Zeitung , Balthasar Waitz : Together in word and deed - 10th home days of the Banater German and German-speaking media days ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 22, 2011
4. ^ Der Tagesspiegel : Before the referendum in Romania - Putsch by ballot , July 28, 2012
5. ↑ ^{a b} Deutschlandradio , Thomas Wagner : Fear of access to files , November 27, 2010
6. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Felicitas von Lovenberg: The human pastior must be reassessed , interview with Stefan Sienerth , November 17, 2010
7. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: The continuation of defamation , interview with Herta Müller, November 23, 2010
8. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Richard Wagner: Spying down to the last verse , December 16, 2009, p. 29
9. ↑ Der Spiegel : We don't want to see it hanging , interview with Richard Wagner, December 14, 2009
10. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: His friendship was prescribed by the Securitate , interview with Richard Wagner, February 21, 2010