Alscher, Otto 1880-1945, b. 8 Jan 1880 in Perlas/Perlasz on the Tisza, Banat, died 29 Dec 1944 in Târgu Jiu, Romania.  Editor of the "Deutdschen Tageblatts," 

•  "Der Dukaten" Der Türk stürmt

Bader, Hans

• Your Homeland Is Now Here

Bleyer, Jakob, 1874-1933 Born 25 Jan 1874 Tscheb/ Dunacseb in the Batschka, Professor of German Language. The Politician who fought for the Hungary German double identity.

Archiv der Deutschen aus Ungarn: 1983

• Temeswar 2007
• Banater Bergland 2007

• Mother
• Some of Eminescu's poems translated into English

Josef Gabriel (1853-1927) was born in the German village of Mercydorf (Banat), where he also attended elementary school. From an early age, he helped his parents with the farm work. He continued to study the German language on his own and published his first poems at the age of 21. He continued farming and writing throughout his life. He married three times and had nine children. Josef Gabriel sen. was greatly respected by the people of Mercydorf and reviled by the Hungarian-educated village elite as a "Pan-Germanist".  More Info

• 's gibt vielerlei Narre! / There are many kinds of fools!

Jung, Peter, 1887-1966, Lived and published in Hatzfeld (Banat). Perhaps his most well-known poem is “Mein Heimatland” (My Homeland) which was set to music & became part of the Danube Swabian choral repertoire.

• Mein Heimatland

• Night on the Heath

• Mercydorf

Lenau, Nikolaus, (1802-1850) Austrian poet, born in Lenauheim (Csátád) near Temesvar in Hungary, on the 25th of August 1802 and died 22nd of August 1850 in Oberdöbling.  Lenau, Nikolaus, the *pseudonym of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Von Strehlenau. – N. Tullius
Nikolaus Lenau Memorial House

• Then and Now

Müller-Guttenbrunn, Adam, (1852–1923) worked for many years as a theater director and writer in Vienna. He was in the forefront of the struggle against the assimilation of the Danube Swabians into the Hungarian ethnic culture, and for the preservation of the German cultural life in the Banat, becoming the speaker and poet of the Danube Swabians. In the poem, ‘motherland’ refers to Germany; ‘fatherland’ refers to Hungary. Many proponents of an ethnic Hungarian identity referred to German-speaking Banaters as ‘foreigners’. As used in the poem, both ‘German’ and ‘Swabian’ refer to Banat Swabians or Danube Swabians in general. – N. Tullius

• Banater Schwabenlied / Song of Banat Swabians

Muttar, Ferdinand, Mercydorf

• October Snow

• Shift of Languages in the Works of Robert Reiter by Imre J. Balázs (Cluj/Romania). Robert Reiter, later known as Franz Liebhard) was born in 1899 in Temesvar.

• Poetry Collection 1934

Szentra, Lorenz, b. 1882 Mercydorf, Banat. To the few well-known farmer poets, Lorenz Senetra is among them.   He wrote many poems while in Russian captivity (1914-1918).  A large part of his collection was destroyed through the invasion of the Russians in Mercydorf.

• My Heimatland / My Homeland

• Windmill Grinds
• Song of the Colonists

Wagner, Johann *1870

• Plowing