Angel Guimerà

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Àngel Guimerà, circa 1894.

Àngel Guimerà i Jorge , in Spanish Ángel Guimerá y Jorge , sometimes also Angel Guimerá (born May 6, 1845 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Tenerife , † July 18, 1924 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish writer whowrotein Catalan .

Life

Guimerà was born in the Canary Islands ; his father was a Catalan, his mother a local. Already in early childhood he moved to the mainland with his family and settled in El Vendrell ( province of Tarragona ), his father's hometown.

Guimerà later moved to Barcelona and stayed there for the rest of his life. He died nine weeks after his 79th birthday on July 18, 1924 and, at the request of King Alfonso XIII. a state funeral in the Cementiri de Montjuïc cemetery in Barcelona.

Work and reception

Guimerà was - besides Narcís Oller and Jacint Verdaguer  - an important representative of the Renaixença ; especially for the Spanish theater he created some important works.

His work Terra baixa served as the literary model for Eugen d'Albert's opera Tiefland and his story La filla del mar was based on the same composer of his opera love chains . After the opera, the director Leni Riefenstahl directed the 1954 film Tiefland .

Honors

Teatro Guimerá, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The Teatro Guimerá in Santa Cruz de Tenerife bears this name in his honor.

Publications (selection)

  • L'ànima morta. 1892
  • Terra baixa. 1896
  • La filla del mar. 1900
  • Aigua que corre . 1902
  • Jesus que torna. 1917

literature

  • Petra Neumann: Investigations into the work and reception of the Catalan playwright Àngel Guimerà. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-631-34583-6 .
  • Xavier Fàbregas: Angel Guimerà. Les dimensions d'un mite. Editorial 62, Barcelona 1971.
  • Josep M. Junyent: Angel Guimerà. Vida i obra. Editorial Millà, Barcelona 1968.
  • Josep M. Poblet: Angel Guimerà. Bruguera, Barcelona 1967.

Web links

Commons : Àngel Guimerà  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Àngel Guimerà i Jorge (Catalan, Spanish). Extensive list of works in the database of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franc Chamberlain: Spanish Theater 1920-1995: Strategies in Protest and Imagination. Volume 3. OPA, Amsterdam, 1998, p. 49.
  2. ^ Josep Miracle: La leyenda y la historia en la biografía de Angel Guimerá. La Laguna de Tenerife, 1952, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Manuel Rivera, Alfredo Gavin: Tarragona y Costa Daurada: litoral e interior. Cossetània Edicions, Valls 2002, p. 56.
  4. ↑ Rowland Mead: Tenerife. New Holland Publishers, London 2007, p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Guimerà, Angel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guimerá i Jorge, Àngel (Catalan spelling); Gimerá y Jorge, Ángel (Spanish spelling); Angel Guimerá (variant)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish author of the Catalan language
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Cruz de Tenerife
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1924
Place of death Barcelona