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The Transylvanian Saxon literature (German: Die Siebenbürgisch-Sächsische Literatur) is a form of literature which represents the totality of literary works written in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect (a dialect of the German language spoken in Transylvania, contemporary central Romania since the High Middle Ages) and Standard German by ...
The Transylvanian Saxon literature represents a part of the German literature in Central and Eastern Europe as well as a part of Romanian literature. It has been written by Transylvanian Saxon writers since the Middle Ages onwards, in Latin, the Transylvanian Saxon dialect, and Standard German.
Together with Gust Ongyerth, he founded the art and literature publication Klingsor in Brașov, which he edited until 1939. As editor of Klingsor, Heinrich Zillich questioned the validity of a national as opposed to a European culture and saw the Saxons as the representatives and mediators of European culture in Transylvania. [1]
Illustration from 'Die Gartenlaube' (1884) depicting a group of Transylvanian Saxons during the Middle Ages. The Transylvanian Saxons, a group of the German diaspora which started to settle in Transylvania, present-day Romania, since the high medieval Ostsiedlung, have a regional culture which can be regarded as being both part of the broader German culture as well as the Romanian culture.
This is a list of famous Transylvanian Saxons. Academics. Adele Zay, (1848–1928), ...
Fritz Schullerus (born 22 July 1866 in Făgăraș and died 22 December 1898 in Cincu) was a Transylvanian Saxon painter. Life ... Literature. V. Roth, Fritz ...
Their dialect, Transylvanian Saxon, is a strong testimony to this as it reflects many similarities with Luxembourgish. German-language map depicting areas colonised by ethnic Germans in the former Kingdom of Hungary, with Transylvanian Saxons depicted in red-burgundy to the east of the former Hungarian kingdom
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.