Petru Dumitriu

Petru Dumitriu ( born May 8, 1924 in Bazias, † April 6, 2002 in Metz) was a Romanian writer.

Life

Dumitrius father was an officer in the Romanian army. His mother was a native Hungarian. In the family was predominantly spoken French. Thus, French Dumitrius second language that he already learned in childhood. After attending school in Romania Dumitriu studied philosophy with a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Munich. The study in 1944 was interrupted by the front changing of Romania in World War II. From 1956 Dimitriu was director of the State publishing house of literature in Bucharest and in 1958 President of Publishing Council of the Romanian Ministry of Culture. 1960 Dumitriu fled across the Federal Republic of Germany to France, where he settled in Metz. Only in 1996, he returned to his homeland.

In Germany Dimitriu was his two-volume work " The Boyars ' known in 1960 appeared the first volume, entitled " The family jewels ", 1962, the second volume, entitled " joys of youth ". In the family novel Dumitriu processes the history of his native country until the end of World War II.

As a screenwriter, he participated also at the filming of his own and foreign substances. Thus, "the family jewels " filmed in the GDR in 1957.

Awards

Works

  • Enmity. From the Rumanian by Leonore race, State Publishing House, Bucharest, 1949
  • Wolf hunting. Youth Publishing House, Bucharest, 1950
  • Sowing and reaping. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1952
  • June nights. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1953
  • The channel. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1953
  • Petrel. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1957
  • The boyars. Part 1: The family jewels. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1960
  • The boyars. Part 2: joys of youth. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1962
  • Meeting last judgment. Fischer Library, Frankfurt, Hamburg, 1962
  • Incognito. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1963
  • Remote West. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1963
  • The Trans- modernity. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1965
  • The Sardinian smile. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1967
  • The man with the gray eyes. Bastion - Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch -Gladbach, 1972
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