Aquilino Ribeiro

Aquilino Ribeiro Gomes (* September 13 1885 in Carregal because Tabosa, Sernancelhe, † May 27, 1963 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese writer who has worked primarily as a novelist and Germany closely linked. He is known in Portugal, especially as independent -minded author of numerous profound novels.

Life

Aquilino Ribeiro was born in 1885. In 1907, he fled to Paris and began studying philosophy and sociology at the Sorbonne. In Paris he met his future wife, the German Grethe Tiedemann (1890-1927), whom he married in Schwerin in 1913. 1914 their son Anibal Aquilino Fritz Tiedemann Ribeiro was born. In 1913 his first book. In 1912 he came to Germany and indeed to Berlin and Parchim first time. Then he lived until 1914 in Paris. Due to the outbreak of war the family moved to Portugal. In 1918 he became curator at the National Library of Lisbon. In 1928 he again visited Paris.

Aquilino Ribeiro made ​​1920 a significant journey through Germany and held his impressions in articles for the Portuguese newspaper O Patria fixed, especially of the encounters with ordinary people, for the writer from a distant land was a rarity. Germany, he was very fond. On his journey he visited the following cities: Berlin, Parchim, Schwerin, Hildesheim, Hamelin, Pyrmont, Hannover, Hamburg, Cologne. This work is thus a valuable, since it shaped the image of Germany in Portugal for decades. From a German perspective, are his exact observation and reflected the changed Germany, its political and social developments, and its peculiarities, is important.

Having already participated as a young man for the Republic, he was also an opponent of emerging from the military coup of 1926 dictatorship, from which the semi -fascist regime of Salazar was born. Also it is called commonly known as the founder of the home literature in Portugal. Only one work as well as his travel notes have been translated into German.

After a short illness, Aquilino Ribeiro died in 1963 at the hospital of the industrial group Companhia União Fabril (CUF ). He is now buried in Nationalpantheon.

Works (selection)

• Os Mahlhandinhas, 1922 stories.
• Andam Faunos pelos bosques ( Faune roam the forests), 1926. Novel.
• Never Cry Wolf, 1958, German 1965.Roman.
• Germany 1920. A journey from Portugal to Berlin and Mecklenburg, Germany in 1997, Atlantic Publisher.