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Petru Ilieșu (Ilieș Petru Nicolae, born September 12, 1951, Timișoara, Romania) is a writer (poet, essayist, English translator and publicist).

As a writer he made his debut as a poet in the early 70's, the first volume Pastel H being published in 1978, at Litera Publishing House, Bucharest.

Biography
He graduated from Eftimie Murgu High School in Timișoara and the Faculty of Philology of the University of Timișoara. After graduating, he worked as a librarian at the Timiș County Library until 1994. From 1990 until now he led the Timișoara Foundation `89, which he founded since December 1989. In parallel he worked as a publicist (being one of the founders of the Timișoara newspaper). In 2003 he founded Planetarium Publishing House.

Involvement in the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Petru Ilieșu is known as one of the Romanian protesting writers with a critical activity towards the dictatorship regime in Romania during the Ceausescu period. Influenced by the Beat generation and the Flower Power current, he staged experimental theater director (Timisoara Student House) thematic performances and published texts with a pacifist content. In 1981, he was detained and investigated by the Securitate as the author of an act of spreading manifestos against the Ceausescu regime. In the summer of 1989 he sent outside Romania the poem "Open letter about my brother, Mr. Gorbachev", a protest manifesto and joined as a signatory of the appeal initiated by Dan Petrescu and signed by Doina Cornea, Luca Pițu, Liviu Antonesei, Liviu Ioan Stoiciu, Alexandru Tacu, Mariana Marin and several other writers against the re-election of Ceausescu at the 14th Congress of the PCR, an appeal that appeared at the beginning of October 1989 in the international press. In December 1989 he participated in the protest movements in Timisoara, protests that triggered the anti-communist revolution and went to Bucharest to make known, as a direct witness, the demonstrations in Timisoara to determine reaction and solidarity with the demonstrators.

He was arrested together with the writer Nicolae Prelipceanu and investigated by the Security and then forced to return, on an established route, to Timișoara. Back in Timisoara, he was part of the first revolutionary structures, from which he retired in February 1990.

Activity
Experimental theater director - Timișoara Students' House 1974-1975 / Librarian - County Library - Timișoara 1979-1996 / Author: performance, installations, multimedia, digital art./ Founding President - Timișoara ‚89 Foundation 1990 - 2009 / President - Federation of Humanitarian Organizations - Timisoara 1991-2009 / Director (editor) Planetarium Publishing House. Timișoara / publisher (one of the founders of Timișoara newspaper);

Founding member of the Romanian Civic Alliance/ Member - Former Timișoara Advisory Council (currently abolished)/ Member - Artistic Council of the Timișoara National Theater / Member - Rotary Club Timisoara

Subject of documentaries (selective): Bohemia of Timisoara (TVR); Peter (TVR); Return to Europe (documentary about Romania made by the European Stability Initiative, winner of the European Erasmus Euro Media Award, Vienna, 2008) ; Candle over time (TVR); various other documentaries about the December 1989 revolution.

Published books
•       Pastel H. (Litera Publishing house, Bucharest, 1978);

•       Self portrait with foxterrier (Litera Publishing house,  Bucharest 1980);

•       The Room of Mercury (Albatros Publishing house, Bucharest, 1982);

•       Question about returning home (Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1975);

•       Starting NGO’s handbook…(E.K.S. Timișoara, 1991)

•       Confession over the Labyrinth  (Marineasa & Planetarium, Timișoara, 1995);

•       România (Marineasa & Planetarium, Timișoara, 1996);

•       Petru (Planetarium, Timișoara, 1997);

•       România Post Scriptum (Planetarium & Brumar – Timișoara, 1999)

•       The Revolution (Planetarium –Timișoara 2000)

•       Timișoara 1989 – No Comment ? (Planetarium, Timișoara, 2003)

•       Timișoara – The History of a European City (Planetarium, Timișoara 2005)

•       Temeswar gechichte einer Europaische stadt (Planetariu, Timișoara,2006)

•       Performance in Timișoara (Planetarium, Timișoara, 2007)

•       Timișoara – Pocket book guide (Planetarium, Timișoara, 2007)

•       Tourist in Timisoara- (album book - German and English edition) (Planetarium, Timisoara, 2008)

•       Jazz as a mood (Romanian – English) (Planetarium, Timișoara, 2011)

•       Allen Ginsberg – selected works (translator/ & Domnica Drumea) (București, Polirom, 2011)

•       ''Chapter nr. 2''. Bootle book (Planetarium, Timișoara; 2014)

•       In searching of The Tank Man (Planetarium, Timișoara, 2018)

•       People who don`t exist (Planetarium, Timișoara 2020)

•       '''Rumänien. Postskriptum', Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg,2020''

Anthologies abroad
Davide Astori. Petru Iliesu e la sua Romania a 30 anni dalla Revoluzione. Athenaeum. Edizioni Universitarie. 2019

'Rumänien. Postskriptum.' Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg,2020 (translated by William Totok)

Ion Miloș. An Anthology of Romanian Poetry, Sweden, 1998

Dieter Schlesak' - Gefährliche Serpentinen. Rumänische Lyrik der Gegenwart'”. Berlin, 1998

Collaborations on collective volumes (anthologies, thematic volumes, etc.)

Author performance (scenographer and director)
No to the Wars! (happening, light show sound and projections) Timișoara Student`s House,1974

Me, Ion (collages) Timișoara Student`s House,1974

Petru (happening, collages, installation) Art Galery –Timișoara, 1997

România, Post Scriptum (street performance & installation), Timișoara, 1999 – film made by Romanian television;                              

Revoluțion (happening, collages), The Note Club, Timișoara, 2000;

Vacarm (street performance & video installation) Opera Square Timișoara, 2001;

The Dark Room and The fishing net (performance & installation), Timișoara 89 foundation`s center, Timișoara,2002 – film made by Romanian television;

Windows (video installation), Archipelago Gallery, 2005;

Messenger (Performance, collages, installation, multimedia), Timișoara Vest University Hall (in partnership with Timișoara National Theater, 2007;

The Golden Cage (street installation), 2011;

Inside and Outside (video installation) – Timișoara `89 foundation`s Center, 2011;

People who don`t exist – (street installation & collages),Union Square Timișoara, 2020;

Exibitions (digital art)
180º Inside and Outside. Installation, digital art, multimedia, Archipelago Gallery, 2011;

Foto scapes – Collective Art exhibition – Expovest, Timișoara, 2011;

Cityscape – Interfoto 2012 – Mansarda Gallery (Timișoara Faculty of Arts);

Author – design projects
The Japanese Garden - Timișoara `89 Foundation, Spl. N Titulescu nr. 2. (1994-2014);

Archipelago Art Gallery  (digital art) Timișoara `89 Foundation'', str. Martir Gogu Opre nr. 24;''

Timișoara Open Art City (Brand of Timișoara City).

Petru – experimental book, 1997

'Chapter nr. 2' – bottle book, 2014

Prefaces and editing care
Nicolae Ilieșiu -Timișoara, historical monograph, Planetarium, Timișoara, 2003

13 Romanian Poets of the day, Anthology. Ed. Eubea, Timișoara,2004

Doru Octavian Iosif - Poetul curții de la numărul 5. Ed. Eubea, Timișoara, 2005

Timișoara The magic houses of the town – Ed. Planetarium, Timișoara, 2020

Selective references in journals
Nicolae Ciobanu. Luceafărul.nr.17/1978

Viorel Boldureanu. Forum. Nr.2/1978

Lesovici.M.D. Cronica.nr.18/1978

Virgil Nistor, Steaua.nr.5/1978

Ion Maxim. Forum.1980

Livius Ciocârlie. Forum. 1980

Peter Schleich. Neue Banater Zeitung. Nr.5647/1981

Marcel Pop Corniș. Orizont. Nr. 25/1982

Ion Arieșanu. Orizont. nr. 34/1982

Ioan Holban. Cronica. Nr.44/1985

Bogdan Lefter. România Literară, nr.38/1982

Simona Grația Dima. Contemporanul.nr.51-51/2001

Eugen Bunaru. Orizont, 2001

Bogdan Lefter. Observator cultural, nr. 232/2004

Liviu Antonesei. Timpul, nr. 7-8/2004

Liviu Ioan Stoiciu. Cotidianul, 2007

Ion Zubascu – Romania libera, ian. 2006

Liviu Antonesei. Timpul. Martie 2007

Elena Vladareanu - Romania Libera – oct. 2007

Alexandru Vakulovski. Deschide.md. 2015

Daniel Vighi. Cațavencii, 2018

Grațiela Benga. Orizont, 2020

Teorna Farmatu. Steaua, 2020

Brîndușa Armanca. Europa Liberă, 2020

Liana Păun. PressAlert, 2020

Claudiu Komartin, Poesis International, 2020

Tudorel Urian. Viața Românească, 2020

Awards and diplomas
Romanian Writers Union Prize (Timișoara branch, 1996

Romanian Writers Union Prize (Timișoara branch), 2007

Nominated to Prize of Romanian Writers Union for translated Allen Ginsberg; 2011

National Jazz Gala Prize (Muza foundation), București; 2011

Prize for journalism - Jazz Banat Foundation, 2017

Romanian Writers Union Prize (Timișoara branch) – the book of the year – poetry, 2018

Diploma of Excellence (Timișoara City Hall) for the entire activity, 2006

Diploma for journalism – Revolutionary Memorial, 1995

Banat Excellence Gala Award, 2014

Diploma of Excellence - in the field of social urbanism. Romanian Architects Register,2015

Paul Harris Fellow – The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, 2017

''The Romanian Revolution of December 1989. Medal'' 1991

Fighter for the victory of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 - Fighter noted for special deeds" (Certificate LRM-I Nr. 00044)