Srečko Kosovel

Srečko Kosovel ( born March 18, 1904 in Sežana, Austria -Hungary (now Slovenia), † May 26 1926 in Tomadio, Italy, today Tomaj, community Sežana, Slovenia) was a Slovenian poet.

Life

Srečko Kosovels parents were Anton Kosovel and Katarina, born stres, he was the fifth child. Kosovel grew up in the village Tomaj. During the First World War was at its origin from 1915 a main battle line, which is why he was housed with a sister in Ljubljana. 1919/1920 began his first serious attempts at writing. From 1922, he studied in nunmehrigen Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the University of Ljubljana Romance, Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature, philosophy, and art history. He wrote articles for the magazine Vita Leda, published by Slovenian students, as he came from the Italian Venezia Giulia and there could not study. Kosovel now came in contact with the avant-garde post-war literature. In the fall of 1923, he founded the " Ivan Cankar Club", named after the deceased Slovene poet Ivan Cankar 1918. With Ivo Grahor he founded the magazine Vidovdan. In cooperation with the Bauhaus students Avgust Černigoj (1898-1985) he was planning also created the publication of the constructivist journal CONS, but this was not realized. In 1925 he got in even in the socialist journal Mladina. In a departure from the influenced by Josip Murn Impressionist style, he went over to a constructivist written poetry. Kosovel has compiled two books of poetry during his lifetime, Zlati Coln ( The Golden Boat ) and Integrali ( integrals). In the midst of these activities Kosovel died in his home after a severe cold to meningitis.

Aftermath

Kosovels friend Alfonz Gspan edited in 1927 a booklet with 66 unpublished works. In 1946 Anton Ocvirk the collected works out. The later works, however, were published in 1967 under the title " Integrali '26 ". To his hundredth birthday in 2004, efforts have been made ​​to fully open up the work and it also, in part, into other languages ​​to translate.

Writings in German translation

  • My poem is my face: invention of a Orphic landscape, Translator from the Slovenian. Ludwig Hartinger. Woodcut. , Pen Drawing. Christian Thannhäuser, Ottenheim on the Danube: Thannhäuser, 2004 ISBN 3-900986 -55- X
  • Decek in sonce. The boy and the sun, German and Slovenian. Translated from the Slovenian by Maja Haderlap, illustrations, Mojca Cerjak. Klagenfurt / Celovec: 1999 ISBN 978-3-85435-330-0 Drava
  • Integrals. From the Slovenian. Erwin Koestler, Klagenfurt / Celovec: 1999 ISBN 3-85435-303-0 Drava
  • My poem is Karst: Poetry Slovenian German, Klagenfurt: Wieser, 1994.
  • Poetry: Slovenian- German, from the Slovenian. Ludwig Hartinger, Klagenfurt: Wieser, 1988 ISBN 3851290054
  • Idea of future poems, Leipzig: Reclam Philipp Jun., 1986.. With 18 collages, linocuts and compositions by Avgust Černigoj, 1 linocut by Edvard Stepančič; from Slovenian five poems in the language of the original. Adaptations of Heinz Czechowski, Kurt Drawert, Uwe Kolbe, Astrid Philippsen and Richard Pietraß; Translation by Astrid Philippsen; Comments by Gerhard Peter Schaumann and Krecic
  • Integrals, Munich: R. Trofenik 1976
  • Poems and integrals / Pesmi in integrali. Übers of Jozej Strutz, publishing Carinthia, Klagenfurt / Celovec 1996
  • My black inkwell. Nocturne / Moj črni tintnik. Nokturno. Handbook for Kosovel-Leser/Kosovelov brevir. Ed Jozej Strutz, Edition Rapial edicija, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2003/ 04
  • Red rocket. Slovenian avant-garde poet Srečko Kosovel. Edition Rapial edicija, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2014

Setting

  • Giampaolo Coral: Kosovel songs: per soprano e pianoforte, Knives: Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia, 2006.
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