Stein, Jakob Konrad [Stein, Jacobus Conrad] (Pseudonym Franz Feld) – Banat Writer
Born 27 Jul 27, 1878 Franzfeld, died May 02, 1948 Graz, Austria
The son of a wealthy farmer attended the lower classes of the high school in Pantschowa, the upper classes in Preßburg. After graduating from high school, he studied German, history and geography in Vienna, Leipzig, Jena and Budapest. Here he received teaching qualifications for teaching at higher schools. From 1904 to 1905 he tried to gain a foothold as a high school professor in Temeschburg, but had to leave the Banat capital as early as 1905 because he tried to work against the intense madjarization. He moved to Graz in 1905, where he lived and worked as a freelance writer on the Ruckelberg. Many of his works have appeared under the pseudonym “Franz Feld”; he wrote the first Danube-Swabian literary history of a quarter of a century: “Twenty-five years of German literature in the Banate …” [Fünfundzwanzig Jahre deutschen Schrifttums im Banate] is still significant today.
Works:
Die schöne Magelone [The beautiful Magelone]. Vienna & Leipzig 1903; Zwei Banater Dorfgeschichten [Two Banat village stories]. Werschetz 1907; Helge, der Sigmundsohn. Ein Romanzencyklus [Helge, the son of Sigmund. A cycle of romance]. Temesvar 1912; Joggls Liebessorgen [Joggl’s love worries]. Temesvar 1913; Bauernehre [Peasant honor]. Dresden 1913; Fünfundzwanzig Jahre deutschen Schrifttums im Banat [Twenty-five years of German literature in the Banat]. Temesvar 1915; Schatten [Shadow]. Temesvar 1914; Stephan Milow. Temesvar 1916; Die Bauernkomteß [The Peasant Committee], 1924; Gottlob Storrs zweite Ehe [Gottlob Storr’s second marriage]. Temesvar 1928.
Source: Anton Scherer: Conrad Jacob Stein. Persönlichkeit und Werk eines Banater Schriftstellers [Personality and work of a Banat writer]. In: Südostdeutsche Heimatblätter vol. 6, 1957. (1978)
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