West University of Timisoara

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West University of Timisoara
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founding 1962
Sponsorship Republic of Romania
place Timișoara
Rector Marilen Pirtea (2019)
Students 15,000 (2009)
Networks IAU
Website www.uvt.ro

The West University of Timișoara (also: University of the West , West University of Timișoara ; Romanian : Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara ) is a state university in the western Romanian city ​​of Timișoara . The university was founded in 1962 and is now divided into eleven faculties. Marilen Pirtea has been the rector of the university since March 2012 .

The university was ranked 701 in the 2015 QS World University Rankings .

University of the West Timișoara

Faculties

  • Art and design
  • Chemistry, biology, geography
  • Economics and Business Administration
  • Law and Administrative Sciences
  • Journalism, history and theology
  • Mathematics and computer science
  • Music and theater
  • Physical education and sport
  • physics
  • Political Science, Philosophy and Communication Studies

The German department of the drama department at the Musikhochschule was founded in 1992. It replaced the German section of the Bucharest Theater and Film Academy, which was dissolved in 1982. The acting chair has been available in Romanian and German since 2000. The training has lasted three years since 2005.

The graduates of the first year are now mostly lecturers of the acting chair and members of the German State Theater Timisoara , which was founded in 1953 as a public German-speaking cultural institution in Romania and shares the house with the Romanian, the Hungarian State Theaters and the National Opera .

Personalities

  • Nikolaus Berwanger (1935–1989), German writer and journalist, studied at the philological faculty
  • Stefan Binder (1907–1997), holder of the chair for German studies
  • Colin Buzoianu (* 1979), Romanian actor, studied acting at the German acting department of the music faculty
  • Laura Cheie (* 1969), German studies specialist and lecturer at the University of the West Timișoara, and former cultural attaché at the Romanian Embassy in Vienna, Austria
  • Walter Engel (* 1942), literary scholar and journalist, lecturer at the Department of German Studies
  • Helmuth Frauendorfer (* 1959), German writer and journalist, studied German and English
  • Christian Giordano (1945–2018), Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Friborg (Switzerland), honorary doctorate from the university
  • Israel Gohberg (1928–2009), Soviet-Israeli mathematician, honorary doctorate from the university in 2002
  • Ioan Holender (* 1935), Austrian singer, artist agent and opera director of Romanian origin, honorary doctorate from the university
  • Ioana Iacob (* 1980), Romanian actress, studied at the German drama department until 2002
  • Hagen Kleinert (* 1941), German physicist and professor for theoretical physics at the Free University of Berlin, honorary doctorate from the university
  • Helga Korodi (* 1954), author and writer
  • Peter Kottler (1939–2013), head of the chair for German language and literature
  • Johann Lippet (* 1951), German poet and narrator, studied German and Romanian
  • Eva Marschang (* 1930), university professor and literary researcher
  • Alexandru Mihăescu (* 1980), Romanian actor, studied at the German drama department until 2003
  • Herta Müller (* 1953), Nobel Prize Winner 2009, studied German and Romanian Philology from 1973 to 1976
  • Roxana Nubert (* 1953), German and Romanist; since 1996 head of the German department
  • Wolfram Schier (* 1957), honorary doctorate from the university
  • Julia Schiff (* 1940), writer and translator, studied French and Romanian philology
  • Eduard Schneider (* 1944), German and Romanian scholar, editor of the Neue Banater Zeitung and the magazine Spiegelungen
  • Hans Schnell (1951–2019), German painter and draftsman
  • Siegmar von Schnurbein (* 1941), German archaeologist provincial Roman, honorary doctorate from the university
  • Lucian Vărşăndan (* 1975), director of the German State Theater Timişoara, studied German and English
  • Carol Vitéz (* 1974), Romanian-Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer, studied music
  • Hans Weresch (1902–1986), Romanian-German teacher, researcher and cultural politician, founder of the philological faculty
  • Ernest Wichner (* 1952), German writer, studied German and Romanian
  • Johann Wolf (1905–1982), university professor and linguist

Web links

Commons : West University of Timișoara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector and Vicerectors WUT. In: www.uvt.ro. Accessed May 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara / West University of Timisoara on topuniversities.com . Three other Romanian universities were mentioned in the list.
  4. ↑ a b c d University professor at the Department of German Studies at the Western University of Timisoara (PDF; 3.1 MB), Hans Gehl