Radu Stanca on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Radu Stanca (March 5, 1920 – December 26, 1962) was a
Radu Stanca (March 5, 1920 – December 26, 1962) was a Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
n poet, playwright, theatre director, theatre critic and theoretician.
Biography
Born inSebeș
Sebeș (; German: ''Mühlbach''; Hungarian: ''Szászsebes''; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Melnbach'') is a city in Alba County, central Romania, southwestern Transylvania.
Geography
The city lies in the Mureș River valley and straddles the river ...
, he spent his early years in Cluj
Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...
, where he attended the Gheorghe Barițiu High School. He then studied philosophy at the University of Cluj
A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...
, completing his studies in 1942 in Sibiu
Sibiu ( , , , Hungarian: ''Nagyszeben'', , Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'' or ''Hermestatt'') is a city in central Romania, situated in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles th ...
(after part of the university moved there when Northern Transylvania
Northern Transylvania (, ) was the region of the Kingdom of Romania that during World War II, as a consequence of the August 1940 territorial agreement known as the Second Vienna Award, became part of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946), Kingdom ...
was ceded to Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
as a result of the Second Vienna Award
The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes that were arbitrated by Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy. On 30 August 1940, they assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Cri ...
). Stanca was member of the Sibiu Literary Circle The Sibiu Literary Circle () was a literary group created during World War II in Sibiu to promote the modernist liberal ideas of Eugen Lovinescu.
The group was formed around Lucian Blaga and other intellectuals from Cluj, who had settled in Sibiu ...
, a movement of young poets and essayists who tried, between 1946 and 1948, to rejuvenate the main literary style and aesthetical thinking. In 1947 he received the ''Lovinescu'' award for his tragicomedy
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragedy, tragic and comedy, comic forms. Most often seen in drama, dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the ov ...
''Dona Juana''. He died in Cluj, at age 42.
One of the leading Romanian theatres is the ''Radu Stanca National Theatre
The Radu Stanca National Theatre (, abbreviation: TNRS) is a theatre in Sibiu, Romania, which began construction in 1788. It is one of the longest-standing theatres in Romania and one of the main structures that have contributed to the rise of the ...
'' in Sibiu. Streets in Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș (river), Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a ...
, Cluj-Napoca, and Sibiu bear his name.
References