Aktionsgruppe Banat

The Aktionsgruppe Banat was a literary society that fought for freedom of speech, founded by German-speaking authors of the Banat Swabian minority in the Romanian Banat in 1972. The society suffered persecution from the communist authorities and the Securitate secret police, and was eventually dissolved by the communist authorities in 1975.

Members

Herta Müller, Horst Samson, Roland Kirsch, Helmuth Frauendorfer and Werner Söllner, who are often mentioned in connection with the society, were not members of the society that existed from 1972 to 1975, but were active in the "Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn" literary circle, which comprised most of the membership of Aktionsgruppe Banat.

Literature

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