Poet, lyricist, composer and performer of folk music. She devoted her work to promoting the Romanian language in northern Bukovina. She has published five volumes of verse and the album „Prutule, apă căruntă”.
Eugenia Cimborovici-Teodoreanu is a cultural figure who has devoted her work to promoting the Romanian language and preserving Romanian identity in northern Bukovina and in the Romanian diaspora. Public information about her life is relatively scarce, but the available records outline a remarkable career.
She was born on 27 August 1948 in the village of Chetriș, in the former Bălți county (today in the Republic of Moldova).
She graduated from the Universitatea de Stat „Alecu Russo” in Bălți, after which she worked as a teacher of Romanian language and literature and as a journalist in the Herța region, Chernivtsi oblast.
She was actively involved in the cultural life of the Romanian community in Ukraine, serving as president of the Fundația Civică Raională „Gheorghe Asachi” in Herța, an organisation that has carried out numerous projects dedicated to preserving the Romanian language, culture and traditions.
Together with her husband, Alexandru Teodoreanu, she organised cultural events, book launches, commemorations and activities dedicated to promoting the historical and cultural heritage of the Herța region. She was also involved in promoting the work of the painters Arthur and Paul Verona.
Literary and musical work
Eugenia Cimborovici-Teodoreanu made her name both as a poet and as a lyricist, composer and performer of folk music. Her poems and songs return to themes such as:
- love of one’s people and of the Romanian language
- her native village and the family home
- faith and Christian values
- family and longing
- the history of the Romanians of northern Bukovina and Bessarabia
She has published five volumes of verse and songs, launched both in Bucharest and in Herța. Among the better-known volumes is „Floarea din mine. Versuri și cântece” [The flower within me. Verse and songs], published in 2003.
In music, she released the album „Prutule, apă căruntă” (2013), which includes songs such as:
- Prutule, apă căruntă
- Dor de casa părintească
- Satul meu cu oameni de credință
- Lasă-mi, Doamne, glasul
- Iart-o, Doamne, pe mama
Cultural contribution
The particular merit of Eugenia Cimborovici-Teodoreanu lies in the fact that she used her artistic work as a means of preserving Romanian identity in an area where Romanians have, over time, been subject to strong pressures of assimilation. Her poems, her songs and her public activity have encouraged the use of the Romanian language, the cultivation of historical memory and the preservation of traditions in the Romanian communities of the Chernivtsi oblast. She has also published articles and historical accounts devoted to the Herța region and to the fate of the Romanians of northern Bukovina.
Taken as a whole, Eugenia Cimborovici-Teodoreanu is recognised as one of the figures who have combined teaching, journalism, literature and music in a sustained effort to promote and preserve Romanian culture and language in the historical Romanian communities outside Romania’s borders.