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36-573: Novelist Herta Müller , laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature , graduated from the school. Physicist Stefan Hell , who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , attended ninth grade there before emigrating to West Germany . In 1962, guitarist Béla Kamocsa , who was a student at Lenau and a drummer for the local orchestra, met fellow musician Nicu Covaci , who had been hired by one of

72-603: A German-speaking minority in Romania, the committee has recognized an author who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under communism be forgotten". In 2012, Müller commented on the Nobel Prize for Mo Yan by saying that the Swedish Academy had apparently chosen an author who 'celebrates censorship'. On 6 July 2020 a no longer existing Twitter account published the fake news of Herta Müller's death, which

108-499: A form of poem was posted on Facebook by Chinese dissident Liao Yiwu , where Liu Xia said that she was going mad in her solitary life. At the 7 October Forum held in Stockholm on 25 and 26 May 2024, Müller commented on the "unimaginable massacre" committed by Hamas in its "limitless contempt for humanity" in the 7 October attacks and described it comparable to Nazi extermination pogroms . Erich Pfaff From Misplaced Pages,

144-465: A literary society that fought for freedom of speech. Müller's involvement with Aktionsgruppe Banat gave her the courage to write boldly, despite the threats and trouble generated by the Romanian secret police. Although her books are fictional, they are based on real people and experiences. Her 1996 novel, The Land of Green Plums , was written after the deaths of two friends, in which Müller suspected

180-540: A sports hall and a 24,000-volume library. There is also a canteen, a boarding school with 100 places and a youth hostel with 51 places. Primary school courses (1st–4th grades) have been held since 1960 in the former inn and café La cei Șapte Principi Electori in Union Square , often called "Little Lenau" ( Romanian : Lenau Mic ) today. 5th–12th grades of the high school are located in the immediate vicinity, on Gheorghe Lazăr Street. A new campus with four buildings in

216-651: A translator for an engineering factory, but was dismissed in 1979 for her refusal to cooperate with the Securitate , the Communist regime's secret police. After her dismissal, she initially earned a living by teaching in kindergarten and giving private German lessons. Müller's first book, Niederungen ( Nadirs ), was published in Romania in German in 1982, receiving a prize from the Central Committee of

252-534: Is 'little snow bells', which means we're not only speaking about different words, but about different worlds." (However here she confuses snowdrops with lily-of-the-valley , the latter being called 'little tears' in Romanian.) She continues, "Romanians see a falling star and say that someone has died, with the Germans you make a wish when you see the falling star." Romanian folk music is another influence: "When I first heard Maria Tănase she sounded incredible to me, it

288-451: Is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature . She was born in Nițchidorf (German: Niczkydorf ; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Müller

324-649: Is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of the Socialist Republic of Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceaușescu regime which she has experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the German minority in Romania and are also a depiction of the modern history of the Germans in the Banat and Transylvania . Her much acclaimed 2009 novel The Hunger Angel ( Atemschaukel ) portrays

360-742: The Franz Werfel Human Rights Award . In this book, Müller describes the journey of a young man to a gulag in the Soviet Union , the fate of many Germans in Transylvania after World War II. It was inspired by the experience of the poet Oskar Pastior , whose memories she had made notes of, and also by what happened to her own mother. In October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced its decision to award that year's Nobel Prize in Literature to Müller "who, with

396-706: The Romanian Cultural Institute in reaction to the moral and financial support given by the institute to two former informants of the Securitate participating at the Romanian-German Summer School. The critic Denis Scheck described visiting Müller at her home in Berlin and seeing that her desk contained a drawer full of single letters cut from a newspaper she had entirely destroyed in the process. Realising that she used

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432-707: The Union of Communist Youth . The book was about a child's view of the German-cultural Banat. Some members of the Banat Swabian community criticized Müller for "fouling her own nest" by her unsympathetic portrayal of village life. Müller was a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat , a group of German-speaking writers in Romania who supported freedom of speech over the censorship they faced under Nicolae Ceaușescu 's government, and her works, including The Land of Green Plums , deal with these issues. Radu Tinu,

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504-707: The deportation of Romania's German minority to Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use as German forced labour . Müller has received more than twenty awards to date, including the Kleist Prize (1994), the Aristeion Prize (1995), the International Dublin Literary Award (1998) and the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). On 8 October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced that she had been awarded

540-549: The German population in and around Timișoara. It was a perpetually open school for all generations. As of 2016/2017, the Nikolaus Lenau High School has 24 primary school classes (616 students), 18 secondary school classes (441 students) and 12 high school classes (331 students). With the exception of three primary school classes, all classes are taught in German. The school is a recognized ICDL examination center and has 68 classrooms, 10 laboratories,

576-486: The Nikolaus Lenau High School, Erich Pfaff  [ de ] , founded the German adult education center in Timișoara. As the founder, he was also the head and main lecturer of this adult education institution. The lectures took place monthly in the beginning, then bimonthly and later weekly in the festive hall of the high school. The Nikolaus Lenau High School and the adult education center were important meeting places for

612-582: The Nikolaus Lenau High School. After World War II, the German High School was housed first in the building of the Constantin Diaconovici Loga High School and from 1955 again in the old building at 2 Gheorghe Lazăr Street. On 26 May 1957, the school was renamed the Nikolaus Lenau High School, which was confirmed by decree in 1970 to mark the centenary of the school. In the autumn of 1968, the then principal of

648-575: The Nobel Prize in Literature, describing her as a woman "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". Müller was born to Banat Swabian Catholic farmers in Nițchidorf (German: Nitzkydorf; Hungarian: Niczkyfalva), up to the 1980s a German-speaking village in the Romanian Banat in southwestern Romania, until 1920 within the Kingdom of Hungary . In 1976, Müller began working as

684-483: The Popa Șapcă-Oituz area is scheduled to be completed in 2022. The new campus has been designed with 48 classrooms, physics, biology, chemistry and computer science laboratories, a sports hall, a German-language library and a digital library, as well as a medical office and many other administrative facilities. Herta M%C3%BCller Herta Müller ( German: [ˈhɛʁta ˈmʏlɐ] ; born 17 August 1953 )

720-577: The Securitate officer in charge of her case, denies that she ever suffered any persecutions, a claim that is opposed by Müller's own version of her (ongoing) persecution in an article in the German weekly Die Zeit in July 2009. After being refused permission to emigrate to West Germany in 1985, Müller was finally allowed to leave along with her then-husband, novelist Richard Wagner , in 1987, and they settled in West Berlin , where both still live. In

756-521: The band leaders to produce and perform a school concert, founding Transsylvania Phoenix during the production process. Another graduate of the school is mathematician Adrian Constantin , recipient of the 2020 Wittgenstein Award , the most prestigious scientific award in Austria . In 1761, the two-storey neoclassical building designed by the architect Heinrich Baader  [ de ] and built by

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792-733: The call for a fully developed higher education institution was loud. On 23 April 1870, it was decided, based on a contract concluded between the Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction in Budapest and the Timișoara City Hall, to establish the Staatsoberrealschule ("Real State High School"). The organization of the school was the responsibility of the state, the Hungarian Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction

828-542: The characters or described by the author – is potentially dense with tacit significance means this short novel expands in the mind to occupy an emotional space far beyond its size or the seeming simplicity of its story." In 2009, Müller enjoyed the greatest international success of her career. Her novel Atemschaukel (published in English as The Hunger Angel ) was nominated for the German Book Prize and won

864-529: The civil engineer Johann Reiber was initially the Serbian (Rascian) Town Hall, then a forerunner of the German State Theater in Timișoara with German classics on the repertoire. The " waltz king" Johann Strauss II often made guest appearances here, and in 1796 the first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's The Magic Flute took place there. In a climate of self-confident bourgeoisie,

900-432: The concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." The academy compared Müller's style and her use of German as a minority language with Franz Kafka and pointed out the influence of Kafka on Müller. The award coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism. Michael Krüger, head of Müller's publishing house, said: "By giving the award to Herta Müller, who grew up in

936-613: The following years, she accepted lectureships at universities in Germany and abroad. Müller was elected to membership in the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in 1995, and other honorary positions followed. In 1997, she withdrew from the PEN centre of Germany in protest of its merger with the former German Democratic Republic branch. In July 2008, Müller sent a critical open letter to Horia-Roman Patapievici , president of

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1008-420: The involvement of the secret police, and one of its characters was based on a close friend from Aktionsgruppe Banat. Herta Müller wrote the foreword for the first publication of the poetry of Liu Xia , wife of the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo , in 2015. Müller also translated and read a few of Liu Xia poems in 2014. On 4 December 2017, a photo of the letter to Herta Müller from Liu Xia in

1044-607: The language of instruction, with a Hungarian section until 1927. From 1941 to 1944, the German girls' high school operated in the high school building, and in 1942 the school was named "Nikolaus Lenau", after the Banat-born Austrian poet. For a brief period, starting with 1952, it has been called the Boys' High School no. 2. Between 1952 and 1955, the Faculty of Labor functioned in the high school building. German education

1080-450: The letters to write texts, he felt he had "entered the workshop of a true poet". The Passport , first published in Germany as Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt in 1986, is, according to The Times Literary Supplement , couched in the strange code engendered by repression: indecipherable because there is nothing specific to decipher, it is candid, but somehow beside the point, redolent of things unsaid. From odd observations

1116-446: The villagers sometimes make ("Man is nothing but a pheasant in the world"), to chapters titled after unimportant props ("The Pot Hole", "The Needle"), everything points to a strategy of displaced meaning ... Every such incidence of misdirection is the whole book in miniature, for although Ceausescu is never mentioned, he is central to the story, and cannot be forgotten. The resulting sense that anything, indeed everything – whether spoken by

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1152-516: Was for the first time that I really felt what folklore meant. Romanian folk music is connected to existence in a very meaningful way." Müller's work was also shaped by the many experiences she shared with her ex-husband, the novelist and essayist Richard Wagner . Both grew up in Romania as members of the Banat Swabian ethnic group and enrolled in German and Romanian literary studies at Timișoara University . Upon graduating, both worked as German-language teachers, and were members of Aktionsgruppe Banat,

1188-462: Was immediately disclaimed by her publisher. Although Müller has revealed little about the specific people or books that have influenced her, she has acknowledged the importance of her university studies in German and Romanian literature, and particularly of the contrast between the two languages. "The two languages", the writer says, "look differently even at plants. In Romanian, 'snowdrops' are 'little tears', in German they are 'Schneeglöckchen', which

1224-476: Was initially discontinued under communist rule. Between 1944 and 1948 the confessional schools continued to operate until their nationalization in 1948. The same happened with the two German-language teacher training colleges in Banat. In 1959 the independence of numerous German schools was abolished; they only continued to exist as sections of Romanian schools, with the exception of three secondary schools, including

1260-610: Was placed on analytical geometry , physics , chemistry , natural sciences and drawing . Initially, the language of instruction was German, later Hungarian with explanations in German, as most students were not fluent in Hungarian. After the Banat was divided into three in 1919 and the Oberrealschule was renamed the Deutsches Staatsgymnasium ("German State High School"), German was introduced as

1296-425: Was to appoint the principal and teachers, the mayor's office having only a limited right to appoint the faculty. After seven years of remodeling the building, the Oberrealschule moved in in 1879, which was housed in the building of the municipal public hospital from 1870 to 1878. With the completion of the festive hall in 1882, the construction work at the school was completed. In the Oberrealschule , special emphasis

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