Din paginile revistelor interbelice aiudene
Turning over the Pages of the Inter-war Periodicals of Aiud

Summary/Abstract: The inter-war period was the time when several periodicals with importance for the cultural development of Aiud area appeared in Aiud, even if their apparition was ephemeral. In a way or another, all these periodicals are connected to Ovidiu Hulea’s name and work, a cultural animator which enjoyed a good reputation and visibility in his contemporary time. The magazines “Zorile” – “The Dawn” and “Aiudul” published articles on various themes: the daily problems of the town, religion, science popularization, several literary compositions, news about the activity of Association „Astra” or about the schools of Blaj, cultural, social, Romanian or foreign political news, local events, descriptions of the events and conferences at the Casina Română, news regarding different aspects from the educational system; “România literară” – “The Literary Romania” – restricts its area of interest strictly to the literary and cultural phenomenon. We may enumerate as contributors the following authors: Ovidiu Hulea, Emil Giurgiuca, I. Agârbiceanu, Gh. Bogdan-Duică, T. Bugnariu, Al. Ciura, Augustin Cosma, Teodor Murăşanu, Romul Demetrescu, Dr. S. Dragomir, Gabriel Drăgan, Eugen Hulea, Emil Isac, Octavian Lupeanu, Al. Lupeanu-Melin, N. Mărgineanu, Ştefan Meteş, Const. Radu, Livia Rebreanu-Hulea, Septimiu Popa, Dr. Coriolan Suciu, Horia Teculescu, Silviu Ţeposu etc.; Liviu Rebreanu published in “Zorile” – “The Dawn” a short story entitled The Wife – Nevasta. Our work intends to highlight the way these periodicals participated to the larger geographical area of the Transylvanian periodicals in the inter-war period. We’ll analyze the constancy of the headings and the contributors, the local impact of the articles and their significance in a journalistic national context. We consider as important to highlight in our paper the way all these journalistic initiatives were part of a private project that reached its aims not only at that moment, generating an atmosphere of spiritual emulation, but also in time, generating the same type of atmosphere for our contemporaneity. (“The Dawns (new series)” – “Zorile (serie nouă)”, “The Literary Aiud” – “Aiudul literar”). The greatest merit of these periodicals, confronting with serious material problems, is that of being a starting point for authors which later confirmed their value, becoming important names in the Transylvanian cultural landscape. Although the majority of the works dedicated to the existence of the periodicals are totally ignoring the periodicals mentioned above, they are still claiming their right to existence.

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