Eginald Schlattner
Eginald Schlattner (born September 13, 1933 in Arad, Romania) is a Romanian writer based in the German language.
He was born in Arad in western Romania, near the border with Hungary. He came from a wealthy Saxon family (his father was a merchant and industrialist) who had lived in this region for generations. He spent his childhood and youth in Fogara in the central part of the country.
During her studies in literature, she concentrated on the youth of Saxony and tried to convince the community of the Transylvanian Saxons to the new Marxist regime. In 1957 he was arrested on charges of participating in an anti-state plot. After a few months of interviewing, he begins to testify, inter alia. his brother and several others. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
After leaving the prison he worked in a brick factory, and after a few years he completed his engineering studies. In 1973 he began his theological studies, after which, in 1978, he became a pastor in the village of Roşia near the city of Sibiu.
Years later he returned to literature. He made his debut in 1997 (at the age of 65) with a headless Kogut novel. In 2001 he published his second autobiographical novel, Red Gloves, in which he described his experiences from prison and the first months after his release, as well as the fate of his and other Saxon families in post-war Romania. Authoritative control (person):
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