Oscar Walter Cisek
Illustration — Oskar Cisek Oscar Walter Cisek ([tsízek] or [tšisek]; 6 December 1897 - 30 May 1966) was a Romanian writer, diplomat, and art critic, who authored short stories, novels, poems and essays in both German and Romanian.
Oscar Walter Cisek
Manuscriptum Magazine, Bucharest, no. 3/1972, p. 85. · Public domain
- Born
- 1897 · Bucharest.
- Died
- 1966 · Bucharest.
- Nationality
- Romania
- Occupation
- germanist · art critic · writer · diplomat · novelist · poet · essayist
- Fields
- German studies · art criticism · creative and professional writing · prose
- Education
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Languages
- German · Romanian
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Illustration — Oskar Cisek Oscar Walter Cisek ([tsízek] or [tšisek]; 6 December 1897 - 30 May 1966) was a Romanian writer, diplomat, and art critic, who authored short stories, novels, poems and essays in both German and Romanian.
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Of Transylvanian Saxon descent, Cisek was born and died in Bucharest. After attending Bucharest's Evangelische Schule, he graduated in German studies and Art history from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Noted for his art chronicle and essays in the literary magazine Gândirea, he helped popularize modernist and avant-garde cultural trends in the 1920s Romania. After 1930, he entered the diplomatic corps of the Romanian Kingdom, serving as Cultural and Press Attaché in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. From 1946 to 1947, after the start of Soviet occupation in Romania and until the Communist regime was established, Cisek was General Consul in Berlin. He was imprisoned by Communist authorities, and, after being set free, resumed his work as a writer in Bucharest. Rehabilitated, Cisek was a recipient of the Romanian Academy's Ion Creangă Prize shortly before his death, and became a corresponding member of the German Democratic Republic's Akademie der Künste.
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• Die Tatarin (1929) • Strom ohne Ende (1937) • Vor den Toren (1950) • Das Reisigfeuer (1960)
Scriitorul Oscar Walter Cisek în tinerețe.
Manuscriptum Magazine, Bucharest, no. 3/1972, p. 79.
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1897
Oscar Walter Cisek born at Bucharest.
1966
Oscar Walter Cisek died at Bucharest.
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Oscar Walter Cisek worked in German studies, art criticism, creative and professional writing, prose and poetry. Recorded as germanist, art critic, writer, diplomat and novelist.
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