About
Petre Stoica, born on February 15, 1931, in the commune of Peciu Nou in Timiș County, was a Romanian poet, translator, publicist, press collector, and bibliophile. He is considered the writer with the longest literary career. He was one of the spiritual founders of the “Generation of the 1960s,” alongside Nichita Stănescu, Matei Călinescu, Mircea Ivănescu, Cezar Baltag, Modest Morariu, and Vasile Gorduz.
After graduating from the “C. D. Loga” National College in Timișoara, he moved to Bucharest to attend the Faculty of Philology, specializing in Romanian and German studies. After completing his studies, between 1954 and 1962, he worked as a proofreader at the State Publishing House for Literature and Art and at Editura Univers. He held the position of senior editor at the magazine “Secolul XX” for nine years, from January 1963 to August 1972. In 1964, he became a member of the Writers’ Union of Romania. After 1989, he was elected to the governing council of the Union and participated in the founding of the Romanian PEN Club – Romanian section. He was among the founders of the newspaper “Dreptatea literară” and edited over 100 issues.
In 1991, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly “Epoca,” later transformed into a daily newspaper. After permanently leaving Bucharest in 1995, he founded in Jimbolia the Romanian-German cultural foundation “Petre Stoica,” aiming to reconstruct the Romanian and German cultural and spiritual life of the Banat region.
In 2007, the “Sever Bocu” Press Museum was inaugurated in Jimbolia, on Lorena Street no. 35, with Petre Stoica being the founder of this unique institution in Romania. The museum’s collection includes numerous newspapers, magazines, manifestos, leaflets, humorous publications, as well as parts of an old printing press.
The library of the Romanian-German cultural foundation “Petre Stoica” contains 15,000 volumes in Romanian and German, some of great bibliophilic value. Of particular interest are the collections of numismatics, philately, postcards, and ex-libris, important manuscripts of Romanian and German writers, paintings, engravings, and household museum objects, all part of Petre Stoica’s life. Everything he earned over time was invested in collections that can now be seen and admired.
The “Petre Stoica” Memorial House welcomes you with open doors and invites you to browse pages of history.
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