Banat
Biographies
Banat
Biographies Index Est. 13 Feb 2010 at
DVHH.org by Jody
McKim Pharr.
SAMSON, Horst (Pseudonym: Harry Simon) Banat Teacher,
Journalist, Poet & Author
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Samson, Horst was born 9 Jun 1954, Salcami (Salcâmi
in
Baragan, during the
deportation of his parents,
who were from
Albrechtsfor,
Banat), lived in
Temeswar. Samson
lives in Neuberg (Hessen) and works as an editor of
a newspaper group in Frankfurt / Bad Vilbel.
A former member of the
literary circle
Adam
Müller-Guttenbrunn of the
Writers’ Association of
Temeswar. Prize for Poetry
at the State Festival "Cintarea
Romaniei" 1977.
Samson writes primarily poetry, published since 1976
in anthologies and literary magazines and as a
long-playing records. From 1977 to 1984 he was
editor of the Neue Zeitung Banat.
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Samson made his debut in 1978 with the poetry
collection "The blue water boy." He was also editor of the magazine New
Literature, published in Bucharest by the Romanian Writers' Union and Secretary of
the "Adam-Müller Guttenbrunn" literature circle Timisoara from 1981 until its
dissolution in the fall of protest 1984th. Together with the writers Richard Wagner,
Herta Müller, William Totok, Johann Lippet, Balthasar Waitz and Helmuth Frauendorfer
he signed a letter of protest to the Romanian government and the former dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu. In 1985 he was banned from writing and in 1986 by the Romanian
security service threatened with murder. He emigrated in March 1987 in the Federal
Republic of Germany.
Horst Samson is one of the important representatives of
the Romanian-German literature. His poems have been translated into English, French,
Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian. He translated poems from the
Rumanian by Petre Stoica, Mircea Dinescu, Marin Sorescu, Nichita Stanescu, Traian T.
Cosovei, Nicolae Popa, Mariana Marin, and others.
Samson is a member of the Association of German writer
(VS), the International PEN and Secretary General of the exile PEN, Section
German-speaking countries.
Interview mit dem Schriftsteller PETER
HÄRTLING aus der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland,
anlässlich seines Besuches
in Bukarest.
Der Lyriker, Erzähler und
Kritiker Peter Hartling
wurde 1933 in Chemniz
geboren.
(E/T:
Interview with writer Peter
Härtling from the Federal
Republic of Germany, on the
occasion of his visit to
Bucharest.
The poet, storyteller and
critic Peter Hartling was
born in 1933 in Chemniz.)3
Author of:
der blaue wasserjunge
[the blue water boy],
poems, 19781
Poem: Einen Rülpser lang
Neue Banater Zeitung Volkskalender 1983 Contributed by Jody
McKim | |
Der blaue Wasserjunge (1978)
Tiefflug (1981)
Reibfläche (1982)
Lebraum (1985)
Wer springt schon aus der Schiene (1991)
Was noch blieb von Edom (1994)
La Victoire. Poem (2003)
Und wenn du willst, vergiss (2010)
Publications
Salman Rushdie: Die Satanischen Verse, (mit Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Günter Grass, Günter Wallraff und anderen) Artikel 19 Verlag 1988
Pflastersteine. Jahrbuch des Literaturkreises Adam Müller
Guttenbrunn (mit Nikolaus Berwanger und Eduard Schneider), Temeswar
(Rumänien) 1982.
Anthologies and Literary Magazines
Christoph Buchwald und Rolf Haufs (Hg.), Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Claasen,
Düsseldorf 1984
Hans Bender (Hg.), Was sind das für Zeiten. Deutschsprachige
Gedichte der achtziger Jahre, Hanser, München 1988
Michael Braun und Hans Thill (Hg.), Das verlorene Alphabet.
Deutschsprachige Lyrik der neunziger Jahre, Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1998
Axel Kutsch (Hg.), Blitzlicht. Deutschsprachige Kurzlyrik aus 1100
Jahren, Landpresse, Weilerswist 2001
Christoph Buchwald, Uljana Wolf (Hg.): Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009. S.
Fischer Verlag 2009
Zeitschriften: Akzente, Litfass, die horen, Flugasche, Literaturbote,
Neue Literatur, Nachtcafé, KulTour, Eiswasser, Das Plateau, Matrix,
Spiegelungen
Awards
1981 Lyrikpreis des Rumänischen Schriftstellerverbandes
1982
Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn-Literaturpreis
1988, 1989 Stipendiat des Deutschen Literaturfonds
1992 Nordhessischer Lyrikpreis 1992
1998
Lyrikpreis Meran (Förderpreis)
2007 Literaturpreis "Das beste deutsche Delfingedicht" der
Gesellschaft zum Schutz der Delfine e.V. und der Literaturzeitschrift »Das
Gedicht« (München)
Horst
Samson:
http://horstsamson.de/
Sources:
1Banater 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.
2Deutsche
Literatur im Banat (1840-1939) der
Beitrag der Kulturzeitschriften zum
banatschwäbischen Geistesleben. Author:
Engel, Walter. Publisher: Julius Groos
Verlag, Heidelberg, 1982. ISBN-10:
387276280X / ISBN-13: 978-3872762801
[Published by Jody McKim, DVHH.org 10
Nov 2009]
3Neue
Banater Zeitung Volkskalender 1983
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