Czernowitzers,
the word from the Romanian translation that was omitted is the ARLUS-
Bibliothek where Kittner worked in 1946 and which was part of the "Cartea =
Rusa"
publication House in Bucharest.
>From personal meeting with Kittner at the Celan-Kolloquium 1981 in Buchares=
t.
Regards,
Bianca
On Dec 9, 2015, at 7:46 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> To my astonishment, I can still read and understand some of
> Alfred Kittner's writings, but only some of it. I would appreciate it,
> if one of the other Czernowitzers, who's Romanian is better than mine
> would translate the whole document and if necessary correct
> the few lines I translated.
>
> My translation of a few lines, starting from where Edgar left off:
>
> ------------------------
> My father, Heinrich Kittner (who died in 1932) was an accountant,
> my mother, Cecilia Kittner, maiden name Kapralik, died in 1910,
> when I was barely three years old.
> I completed elementary- and high-school in Vienna,
> where my father stayed during WW1 and in Cernauti.
> After finishing high school in the year 1925, I attended for one year
> the faculty of Sciences at the university of Cernauti.
> I did my military service as an infantry soldier in Satu Mare (1928-1929)
> and next, I studied (1929 - 1932) courses in German studies and literatur=
e
> at the university of Breslau, where I also started my literary carrier.
> In 1932 I returned to Cernauti and worked for one year in the accounting =
section
> of the Bank of Marmorosch.
> (my remark: I find it interesting that Kittner uses the word "Marmorosch"=
,
> which is a German word, rather than the Romanian word which is "Maramures=
")
> But in the year 1933, I started work as an editor at the daily paper "Der=
Tag"
> in Cernauti, at which paper I worked as the editorial secretary, the lite=
rary editor....."
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