Re: [Cz-L] Franz Porubsky's Suicide

This was the Czernowitz of Eminescu.
 " Do you love Czernowitz ?"
Hardy
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From: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
To: <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Cc: "Irene Fishler" <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>; "Gershon Schatzberg"
<gschatz_at_yahoo.com>; "Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar" <irisjune11_at_aol.com>;
"Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 12:46 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Franz Porubsky's Suicide

Czernowitzers...

Thanks to Irene, we learned, that Franz Porubsky's suicide in August 1934
was much more than a personal tragedy, it had a political dimension. During
that period of time Romania headed for a vehement Romanization course and
all public employees, especially the teachers, were forced to take
examinations for Romanian language, history and geography. A failure,
followed by the dismissal, could destroy the basis of existence for the
entire family.

Franz Porubsky was 54 years old in 1934 and failed the Romanian language
examination. Before sitting for the re-examination, he committed suicide, as
we learn from Hartmut Merkt's book "Poesie in der Isolation", Wiesbaden
1999, p. 61, footnote 176.

Elias Hauster, my grandfather, officer of the Czernowitz planning and
building control office, 56 years old in 1934, he too had to endure this
examination and from his correspondance one can comprehend his desperation
and frustration to be treated like a first-grader at the end of a successful
professional career.

In this context I do really realize Franz Porubsky's dilemma and fatal act
of desperation!

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