Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa i Cuervo [ Catalan pronunciation: ʒuam bɾɔsə i kwervu ] ( born January 19, 1919 in Barcelona, † December 30, 1998 ) was a poet, novelist, playwright and graphic and plastic artists, the most representative Catalan author of the avant-garde of the 20. century. As he himself said: " The genres of arts are different ways to express a single reality. You are sides of the same pyramid, which meet at the highest point. ".

Life

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), he began to write occasionally. Back in Barcelona, he met J. V. Foix, know Joan Miró and Joan Prats. Thanks to her advice and within a neosurrealistischen line he began sonnets, Sapphic odes, Sestinen, Freipoeme ( throughout more than 80 books, all in Catalan ) and plays, which he called "stage poetry " (more than 350 works ) to write. Following the futuristic parameters he realized, also in 1941, his first visual poems. 1943 was his first objet trouvé, 1950 his first pairing of distant objects, and in 1956 his first installation ( in the window of a shop ). Together with Antoni Tàpies, Modest Cuixart, Joan Ponç, Arnau Puig and Joan - Josep Tharrats 1947 he founded the magazine Dau al Set.

By meeting with the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Brossa took poetry from 1950 - with the book Em va fer Joan Brossa (, So Joan Brossa created ') - sozialkritischere trains at. During the 60 years he experimented with visual poetry and with objects, a terrain that he would never leave again. At the same time his collaboration began with artists such as Tàpies and Miró, he should expand later on plastic artists of all generations. Starting with his first retrospective in the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona ( 1986) won the exhibitions of the poet of continuity. 1991 exhibition at the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid made ​​him internationally known. In addition, his work reached the public through the so-called " physical seals " as the Poema visual transitable en tres parts (, Walk- visual poem in three parts ') at the Velodrome of Barcelona ( 1984). However, his huge literary production did not break off in spite of this turn to plastic.

In theater he wrote back in the 40s stage acts and practiced other para theatrical genres, such as transformation monologues, ballets and concerts, where the made ​​in collaboration with Josep M. Mestres Quadreny and Carles Santos Ventura pieces and the text theater, opera librettos and movie screenplays are emphasized ( for Pere Portabella and others).

At international level, in addition to its participation in the São Paulo Biennial in 1993 and at the Venice Biennale in 1997, exhibitions in Munich (1988 ), New York ( 1989), in Ceret Collioure, (1991 ), London, and Chicago (1992 ), in Mexico City, Monterrey, Kassel and Göppingen (1998), and in Gothenburg (1998) emphasized. The monumental exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona ( 2001) after his death was part of the final consolidation of its position. Since then, other anthological retrospectives were in Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, in Rio de Janeiro, in Rosario, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Prague, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw to see in Mexico City and in Marseille.

In his last years, Joan Brossa he received from a wide range of international bodies numerous awards for all genres. In 1998, UNESCO awarded him the "Picasso Medal".

Works

  • Poesia escenica (theater), 6 volumes. Edicions 62, Barcelona 1973-1983, ISBN 84-297-1148-1.
  • Poemes objecte ( Visual Poetry ). Servicios Editoriales SA, Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-85546-00-8.
  • L' illusionniste ( Bilingual Anthology in Catalan and French). Orphée / La Différence, Paris, 1991, ISBN 2-7291-0734-7.
  • Poesia rasa I and II Edicions 62, Barcelona, 1991, ISBN 84-297-3148-2 ISBN 84-297-3296-9 and.
  • El tentetieso ( translation in Spanish). Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 1991, ISBN 84-01-59018-3.
  • So was Joan Brossa ( translation in German ). Mosel and Chekhov, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-925987-19-3.
  • Cartells 1975-1999. Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-95166-09-7.
  • A partir del silenci ( polymorphs anthology ). Cercle de lectors / Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-8109-350-5.
  • La piedra abierta ( Bilingual Anthology in Catalan and Spanish). Círculo de Lectores / Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona 2003, ISBN 84-672-0010-3.
  • Poesia Tipografica ( Visual Poetry ). Ajuntamento / Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 2004, ISBN 84-7609-407-8.
  • Poèmes civils ( Bilingual in Catalan and French). URDLA, Villeurbanne 2010, ISBN 978-2-914839-35-8.
  • Strip-tease et suivi de théâtre Irregulier Actions musicales (Translation in French). Éditions de l' Amandier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-35516-119-3.
  • Les etceteras ( Visual Poetry ). CIPM, Marseilles 2011, ISBN 978-2-909097-91-6.
  • The wild head. ( Übersetz. José Luís de saled and Bert Raingässer ). Cologne - Marienburg: Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, 1962.
  • Seal. ( Übersetz. John Hösle and Antoni Pous ). Accents [ Munich ] No. 4 ( August), 1974.
  • Poems. ( Übersetz. Rainer Chrapkowski ). Park. Journal of new literature [ Heidelberg - Berlin ] No. 7 (September), 1978.
  • Fourth play - action ( Übersetz. Rainer Chrapkowski ). First Issue [ Berlin] (November), 1978.
  • Post theater. ( Übersetz. Rainer Chrapkowski ). Theater today [ Seelze ] No. 2 (February), 1979.
  • Poems. ( Übersetz. Cristina Fernández Reumann ), in Boso, F. - Bada, E. A vessel of water. Spanish literature of today. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, 1981.
  • Poems. ( Übersetz. Til Stegmann and Uwe Gruening ) in a game of mirrors. Catalan poetry of the 20th century. Leipzig: Reclam, 1987.
  • Miró Museum ( Übersetz. Trudel Meisenburg ). The Horen. Journal of Literature, Art and Criticism [ Bremerhaven ] nr. 158, 35 Jahrg, 2nd quarter, 1990.
  • Poems and graphics ( Übersetz. Sabine saddle). Privateer [ Berlin], No. 48, 1991.
  • Poems ( Übersetz. Sabine saddle) in the symbolist and Richard Wagner. Translation of foreign languages ​​texts. Berlin: Hentrich, 1991.
  • Poems. ( Übersetz. Roger Friedlein ). The Horen. Journal of Literature, Art and Criticism [ Bremerhaven ], No. 178, 1995.
  • Visual Poetry ( Übersetz. Frank Henseleit ). Cupid. Journal of Art and Poetry [ Dortmund ] nr. 1, 1995.
  • Poems. ( Übersetz. Til Stegmann ) in "Creativity in Joan Brossa poems ". Journal of Catalan Culture [Frankfurt am Main] No. 9, 1996.
  • So was Joan Brossa ( Übersetz. Frank Henseleit Lucke ). Munich: Mosel and Chekhov, 1998.
  • Poems. ( Übersetz. Til Stegmann ) in Friedlein, R. - Judge, as the house specialty. New Catalan literature. Munich: Babel, 1998.
  • Poems. ( Übersetz. Til Stegmann ) in constellations. Fellbach: Cultural Office, 1998.
  • Bverso Brossa. ( Übersetz. Cornelia Eisner ). Vienna: Instituto Cervantes, 2008.
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