The reception of Heinrich Heine in Romanian literature
The reception of Heinrich Heine in Romanian literature

Summary/Abstract: The reception of Heinrich Heine’s literary work in Romanian literature began with the second half of the 19th century and continues until today, taking into account the translation of his creations into Romanian, the critical studies appearing in Romania dedicated to the German author and his influence on the local poets. From the plentiful studies of the bibliography dedicated to Heine, three huge periods of the Romanian literature resulted for the author’s model, respectively: the period starting with the mid half of the 19th century up until the WWI, the interwar period and the post WWII period. Heinrich Heine was taken as a model and his lyrics has been copied and assimilated with enthusiasm in Romanian literature and contributed to the renewal of our poetry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Writers from the society “Junimea” such as Nicolae Schelitti, Dimitrie Petrino, Theodor Şerbănescu, Matilda Cugler-Poni, Samson Bodnărescu and, last but not least, Mihai Eminescu were influenced by the German romantic, creating a cult for him, translating much of his verses and using them as a source of inspiration. The model had later created echoes among the collaborators of the magazine “The Coeval”, like George Kernbach and Avram Steuerman Rodion but also among those at the end of the century, the sower poets like Stefan Octavian Iosif and Maria Cunțan and among the symbolist poets, especially Cincinat Pavelescu and Barbu Nemţeanu. Heine became very popular in our lyrics triggering a movement, a trend in Romanian literature, which would later be called heinism.

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