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Banat Journalist,
Playwright, Poet,
Culture & Literature
Historian, Translator & Author |
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Robert
Reiter
pseudonyms: Franz
Liebhard, Johann
Wanderer,
Georg
Hartmann |
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Born 6
Jun 1899 in Temeswar, lived
in Temeswar.
Journalist, playwright, lyric poet,
historian of culture and literature
and translator.
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Robert
Reiter/Franz Liebhard Biographical Note
Appeared in the article "Robert
Reiter - Übersetzer und Essayist, Frühe Beiträge in der Banater deutschen
Tagespresse der 1920er Jahre" by Eduard Schneider, published in the book
"Österreich und die Banater Schwaben", editor: Hans Dama,
Translated by Nick Tullius
Robert Reiter (1899-1989) was born in Temeswar as the son of a shoemaker and a
laundress. After attending a Hungarian high school, he studied language,
literature, and philosophy in Budapest and Vienna. He was on the staff of the
avant-garde newspaper "Ma" ("Today") in Budapest and Vienna, with interruptions,
until 1924. As a student with social-democratic inclinations, he published
articles and translations in both the German and Hungarian newspapers of
Temeswar. In the summer of 1925 he became editor of the "Banater Deutsche
Zeitung", and then editor-in-chief (1929 - 1941). After the conformity imposed
by the national socialists, and the renaming of the newspaper to "Südostdeutsche
Tageszeitung, Ausgabe Banat", he remained there until August 1944, in charge of
cultural policy, under a newly-appointed chief editor. In January 1945 Reiter
was deported to forced labour in the Soviet Union. Upon his return in 1948 he
took part once again in the cultural life of the Banat Germans, which was being
reoriented by Communist Romania along Marxist-Leninist guidelines. Using the
alias Franz Liebhard, the commentator now also publishes original poems in
German.
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From
the establishment of the German
Theatre (Deutsches Staatstheater
Temeswar) in 1953, until 1968, he was its dramatic advisor. Liebhard published
several collections of poems, such as "Glück auf " (1959) and "Miniaturen"
(1972), as well as books on regional culture and history ("Menschen und Zeiten"
in 1970; "Banater Mosaik" in 1976; "Temeswarer Abendgespräch" in 1977). With
poems mostly translated from the Hungarian by Erika Scharf, there is a
rediscovery, before the end of his life, of the avant-garde poet ("Abends ankern
die Augen", 1989). He won multiple prizes for his works. Robert Reiter/Franz
Liebhard died in Temeswar at the age of 90.
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[Published at DVHH.org 19 Oct
2007]
Also see:
Shift of Languages in the Works of Robert Reiter
by Imre J. Balázs (Cluj/Romania)
Author of:
Schwäbische Chronik [Swabian
chronicles], poems, 1951
Der Türkenschatz
[The Turkish treasure],
novella, 1958
Glück auf [Good
luck], poems, 1959
Die schönsten
Gedichte [The most beautiful
poems], poems 1964
Menschen und
Zeiten [People and times],
Essays, 1970
Miniaturen
[Miniatures], poems, 1972
Banater Mosaik
[Banat Mosaic], studies, 1976
Temeswarer
Abendgespräch [Evening
conversation in Temeswar],
prose, 1977
[Liebhard, Franz: Temeswarer Abendgespräch. Historien, Bilder und
andere Prosa. Timisoara: 1977. 240 S. (10:19) Kart.]
Aurul inaltimilor, [poems in
Romanian translation], 1974
Translator of: Miorita [Romanian
popular epic poem], 1925
Méliusz Jozsef:
30 Gedichte [30 poems], poems,
1965
Al. Voltin: Der Prozess des
Horia [The trial of Horia], 1969
Sources:
Banater deutsche Autoren der
Gegenwart 1980 von Edward Schneider, NBZ –Volkskalender 1980
Banat-German Authors of
the Present -
A
bio-bibliographic list by Eduard
Schneider. Bio information
translated by Nick Tullius; contributed
and published by Jody McKim 10 Nov 2009.
Listed
in book: Deutsche
Literatur im Banat (1840-1939): der
Beitrag der
Kulturzeitschriften zum
banatschwa"bischen Geistesleben. Author:
Engel, Walter. Publisher: Julius Groos
Verlag, Heidelberg, 1982.
[Published by Jody McKim, DVHH.org 10
Nov 2009]
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Also see:
Shift of Languages in the
Works of Robert Reiter
by Imre J. Balázs (Cluj/Romania)
Last updated:
26 Feb 2011 |
