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

Hedwig...

Thank you for your mail and your witness. No doubt about, the Romanization process didn't start in 1934, it started earlier, but we are facing another wave of Romanian examinations for the public employees in August 1934, as we learn nearly day by day from "Der Tag". Presumed that Hartmut Merkt's notice on Franz Porubsky's failure of an examination is correct, that could easily accentuate an already existing status of being "meschugge".

Warmest wishes and Shabbat Shalom!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:06:10 +0300
> From: hedbren_at_zahav.net.il
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Franz Porubsky's Suicide
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu; bconcept_at_hotmail.com
>
> Hi Edgar, About the roumanian law for teacher...retirement.
> My late father in law, Prof.Dr.Efraim Brenner was Studienrat and he asked
> for retirement, because he was not perfect in roumanian language, so did
> most of the teacher, but this examination was much earlier, not in 1934....I
> knew a lot of teacher from L.3 so was called the Jewish Lyceum for boys"
> prof.Herbst also, like Prof.Brenner, but others like Prof. Brueck,
> transferred to Focsani, Prof.Hornstein to Dej, and many others who remained
> for latin, german,...but these transfer or retirement was until 1928...I do
> not understand the Porubsky case...but I was told rhan that he was not
> o.k.with his nerfs, a bit meschugge...
> Regards
> Hedwig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edgar Hauster
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 12:46 PM
> To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Cc: Irene Fishler ; Gershon Schatzberg ; Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar ;
> Miriam Taylor
> 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!
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
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