Rumäniendeutsche Schriftsteller im Visier der Securitate
Romania`s German Writers Targeted by the Securitate

The Case William Totok

Summary/Abstract: In Romania’s communist regime, the secret service Securitate was watching all aspects of book editing and trade. It was based on an ideologically motivated educational mission for complete control of the publishing process. The Securitate developed an invisible, conspiratorial network of persecution by infiltrating its informants and collaborators in the editorial offices of publishers, magazines and newspapers, in the Writers' Union, in literary circles and even in authors' houses. Most writers and editors of the German literary scene in Romania were targeted by the Securitate. Each one of them had to bear different consequences of repression. As the four volumes of his tracking file show, the poet William Totok experienced some of the worst constraints under Ceauşescu’s dictatorship.

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