Barth, Peter
Banat Pharmacist & Poet
Peter Barth was born 02 Jun 1898 in Blumenthal (Masloc, Rumania); studied pharmacy in Cluj Napoca (Rumania) and theology in Gyongyos (Hungary); lived in Blumenthal. Lived in Temeswar. Druggist, lyric poet and member of the Writers’ Association of the RSS.
“Bury me under a tree
that always brings flowers,
and where in my eternal dream
a bird sings its songs!”
Peter Barth, 1960
Author of:
Flammengarben, [Sheaves of flames], poems, 19331Die Erde lebt [The earth is alive], poems, no date1Purpurnes Schattenspiel, [Purple shadow play], poems, 19711Ich suche auch den Sommerpfad [I am also seeking the summer path], poems & prose, 19751
Co-author of:
Herz der Heimat [Heart of the homeland], 19351Volk an der Grenze [People at the border], 19371Rufe über Grenzen [Calls across borders], 19381Junge Banater Dichtung [Young Banat poetry], 19401
The poet Peter Barth was born on June 2, 1898 as the married son of Peter Barth and Margaretha Mannherz in Blumenthal. Peter Barth died on March 1, 1984 at the age of 86 in Timişoara.
He was buried in the Blumenthal cemetery. May everyone who knew him or who only get to know him from this anniversary edition light a candle in silence on his 100th birthday, in silence, for a person, a UNIKUM who left so many beautiful memories, but frustrated during his lifetime was and was not always understood by the hollow-headed rulers of our sad existence here in Banat.
And may everyone who owns this beautiful lyric volume “Schollenfirst” in the expanded anniversary edition, take it in his hands and hold it in front of his eyes to remember a piece of old homeland, the “Schollenenkrume” or the ” Schollentor “to the wide and wide valleys, corridors, to the poplars, acacias and elder bushes, to the beech forests, cross each other with awe, what the Arch Swabian Peter Barth left to the night world.
Hans Matthias Just, Timisoara, August 31, 1997
1 – Banater deutsche Autoren der Gegenwart 1980 von Edward Schneider, NBZ –Volkskalender 1980 Banat-German Authors of the Present – A bio-bibliographic list by Eduard Schneider. Bio information translated by Nick Tullius; contributed and published by Jody McKim 10 Nov 2009.
2 – Author: Engel, Walter; Deutsche Literatur im Banat (1840-1939): der Beitrag der Kulturzeitschriften zum banatschwa”bischen Geistesleben. Publisher: Julius Groos Verlag, Heidelberg, 1982.
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