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Oskar Pastior (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈoskar pasˈtjor]; 20 October 1927 – 4 October 2006) was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.

Biography

Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), he was deported in January 1945, ^{[citation needed]} along with many other ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe, to the USSR for forced labor. He returned to Romania in 1949, and went on to study German studies at the University of Bucharest in 1955. After graduation, he worked for the German language service of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company. In 1964, he published his first collection of poems, "Offne Worte".

After having been under surveillance by the Securitate for 4 years, Pastior became an informer for the Securitate in 1961 with the alias "Otto Stein".[1] This became known in 2010, years after his death.

He was an informer until 1968, when he obtained a scholarship to Vienna and defected from Communist Romania.

Pastior left for Germany, living at first in Munich, then in West Berlin, where he lived the rest of his life. He was known for his translations of Romanian literature into German (among others, the works of Tudor Arghezi, George Coşbuc, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Marin Sorescu, and Urmuz).

He received the highly prestigious Georg-Büchner-Preis in 2006.

The Hunger Angel, the 2009 novel of Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, is based partly upon Pastior's experiences as a forced laborer in the USSR.[2] Initially, Pastior and Müller had planned to write a book about his experiences together, but he died in 2006.[3]

Selected works

• Many Glove Compartments: selected poems (2001, Burning Deck Press). Translated by Harry Mathews, Christopher Middleton, Rosmarie Waldrop, and John Yau.
• Poempoems, trans. Malcolm Green, Atlas Press, 1992

References

External links

• The spell of a tender eel, on 2006 prizewinner Oskar Pastior
• "Oskar Pastior", at the 2007 International Literature Festival, Berlin

На других языках

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[de] Oskar Pastior

Oskar Walter Pastior (* 20. Oktober 1927 in Hermannstadt, Königreich Rumänien; † 4. Oktober 2006 in Frankfurt am Main) war ein rumäniendeutscher Lyriker und Übersetzer. Er war beeinflusst von der Lautpoesie des Dadaismus und von den Autoren der Gruppe OULIPO. Seine deutschsprachige Dichtung ist von Sprachspiel und Wortartistik geprägt und steht in der Nähe der Nonsense-Dichtung. Nach seinem Tod geriet Pastior in die Kritik, als bekannt wurde, dass er in den 1960er Jahren inoffizieller Mitarbeiter des rumänischen Geheimdienstes Securitate gewesen war.

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- [en] Oskar Pastior

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[fr] Oskar Pastior

Oskar Pastior (né le 20 octobre 1927 à Sibiu en Roumanie et mort le 4 octobre 2006 à Francfort-sur-le-Main) est un poète germano-roumain. Il a été couronné en 2006 du très prestigieux prix Georg-Büchner. En France, il est surtout connu comme représentant allemand de l'Oulipo.

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[ru] Пастиор, Оскар

Оскар Пастиор (нем. Oskar Pastior; 20 октября 1927 (1927-10-20), Германштадт, Румыния, — 4 октября 2006, Франкфурт-на-Майне, Германия) — немецкий поэт.

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