Aktionsgruppe Banat

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The Aktionsgruppe Banat was a literary society that fought for freedom of speech, founded by German-speaking authors of the Banat Swabian minority in the Romanian Banat in 1972. The society suffered persecution from the communist authorities and the Securitate secret police, and was eventually dissolved by the communist authorities in 1975.

Members

Herta Müller, Horst Samson, Roland Kirsch, Helmuth Frauendorfer and Werner Söllner, who are often mentioned in connection with the society, were not members of the society that existed from 1972 to 1975, but were active in the "Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn" literary circle, which comprised most of the membership of Aktionsgruppe Banat.

Literature

  • William Totok: „Die Zwänge der Erinnerung. Aufzeichnungen aus Rumänien“, Hamburg 1988
  • Ernest Wichner (ed.): „Ein Pronomen ist verhaftet worden. Die frühen Jahre in Rumänien. Texte der Aktionsgruppe Banat“, Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • Anton Sterbling: „Am Anfang war das Gespräch”. Reflexionen und Beiträge zur „Aktionsgruppe Banat” und andere literatur- und kunstbezogene Arbeiten, Hamburg 2008
  • Sabina Kienlechner: „»Unter dem Einfluss der bürgerlichen Ideologie«. Die »Aktionsgruppe Banat« in den Akten der Securitate”, in: Sinn und Form, 62. Jg., Heft 6, November/Dezember 2010, S. 746-769.
  • 40 Jahre Aktionsgruppe Banat, Halbjahresschrift - hjs-online, 2.4. 2012