Albert Vigoleis Thelen

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Albert Vigoleis Thelen (born September 28, 1903 in Süchteln on the Lower Rhine ; † April 9, 1989 in Dülken on the Lower Rhine) was a German writer and translator (mainly from Portuguese).

life and work

Albert Thelen was the son of the accountant Louis Thelen and his wife Johanna geb. Scheifes. Like his three brothers, he was raised Catholic. He completed his school days at the elementary school (1909–1913) and at the Kaiser Wilhelm School (1913–1918). Thelen broke off his attendance at the grammar school in Viersen in 1919 after a year and instead learned to be a locksmith at Ling & Duhr in Süchteln until 1922.

Personal enrollment as a "non-high school graduate"

Thelen then got a job as a technical draftsman at W. Schäfer in Viersen. In 1923 he ended his employment relationship and attended the textile college in Krefeld for a year . On October 19, 1925, Thelen enrolled as a "non-high school graduate" at the University of Cologne for the subject of literature. After three semesters, he moved to the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

During his first attempts at writing as a student, Thelen chose the middle name "Vigoleis" as his alter ego , according to his own statements, based on the medieval epic Wigalois of the landlord von Grafenberg .

In 1928 Thelen worked as an assistant to Karl d'Ester (1881–1960) in Cologne at the international press exhibition “ Pressa ”, where he met his future wife, the Swiss Beatrice Bruckner. He earned his living between 1928 and 1931 as a worker on his older brother Josef's poultry farm. During these years Thelen tried again and again to publish; On September 12, 1929 he succeeded for the first time with the article “An attempt at an interpretation” about the painter Hermann Schmitz in the United Three-City Newspaper , the previous Viersener Volkszeitung .

Memorial plaque on a house wall in Palma de Mallorca

Thelen spent the years 1931 to 1936 with Beatrice Bruckner on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca . In 1934 the two married in Barcelona . In Mallorca he began to publish reviews under the pseudonym Leopold Fabrizius . Thelen wrote his last review under this name on April 28, 1940. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 , the Falangists drove the couple to Marseille . From there she emigrated to Auressio , Ticino .

Thelen was friends with the Dutch writer Hendrik Marsman , whom he met in Mallorca in 1934, until his death (1940). Together with Marsman, he translated the Paulus biography of the Portuguese poet and mystic Teixeira de Pascoaes into Dutch. They also translated Pascoaes' work Hieronymus ( Hiëronymus. De Dichter der vriendschap , 1939) together. Before publishing his main work The Island of the Second Face (1953), Thelen crossed out the passages on his friend Marsman.

From 1937 to 1939 Marsman and his wife Rien lived temporarily with the Thelen couple in exile in Ticino. When they found out about the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , their stay in Switzerland seemed too unsafe and they fled to Bordeaux. Thelen couldn't get Marsman to come to Portugal with him (Thelen had an invitation from Pascoaes). Marsman fled to England. On the way the ship went down; he drowned, his wife could be saved. Pascoaes hosted Thelen and his wife between 1939 and 1947 on his "São João de Gatão" winery near Amarante . During that time, Thelen was extremely productive as a writer and translator.

In 1947, Thelen settled in Amsterdam with his wife for over seven years.

In 1954 Thelen stayed briefly in Locarno , Switzerland, before moving to Ascona at the end of the year . He stayed there until 1960 and then went to Blonay near Vevey until 1973 . In Ascona (Casa Rocca Vispa) and in Blonay (La Colline), Thelen managed the country houses of the Mexican millionaire Elita Lüttmann, whose family, originally from Hamburg, was one of the largest coffee producers in Mexico.

In 1962 Thelen was recognized as “persecuted by the Nazi regime” and granted him a small pension. When the goods he managed were sold in 1973, he and his wife settled in Lausanne-Vennes . At the end of 1984, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded him the honorary title of professor .

On October 22nd, 1986 Thelen rented a room in the "St.-Cornelius-Stift" in Viersen- Dülken together with his wife . There he died at the age of 85 on April 9, 1989. His wife survived him by almost three years († January 19, 1992).

According to the literary scholar Jürgen Pütz , Thelen is still "... the great stranger to German literature", although his novel The Island of a Second Face is considered one of the great literary works of the 20th century.

Awards

  • Fontane Prize (1954)
  • Appointment as Professor of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (1984)
  • Ring of Honor of the City of Viersen (1985)
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1985)
  • The Viersen City Library was named "Albert Vigoleis Thelen Library".

Publications

  • Pascoaes Castle. (Poems). Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1942.
  • The island of the second face. From the applied memories of the Vigoleis . (Novel). van Oorschot, Amsterdam 1953; at the same time: Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1953 (for this he was awarded the Fontane Prize of the City of Berlin for 1954.)
  • Vigolotria. (Poems). Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1954.
  • The poet's guardian angel. From the Portuguese storytelling circle. In: The month . 7th year, June 1955, issue 81.
  • The tragelaph. (Poems). Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1955.
  • The black Mr. Bahßetup . A mirror. (Roman), Desch, Munich 1956.
  • Runic mouth. (Poems). Private print, 1963.
  • Glis-Glis . A zoo-Gnostic parable. Developed as a finger exercise for the visually impaired. (Narrative). Olms, Hildesheim 1967.
  • In the glass of words. (Poems). Claassen, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-546-49094-0 .
  • Poetic March calves (prose texts). June, Mönchengladbach 1984.
  • Commendable trade show . Aldus-Presse Reicheneck, Reutlingen 1984.
  • Poems and woodcuts . Aldus-Presse Reicheneck, Reutlingen 1985.
  • Saudade. (Poems). Reutlingen 1986.
  • Goethe's conversations with Frau Eckermann . Reutlingen 1987.
  • Entrance to Pascoaes . Reutlingen 1988.
  • My name is rabbit . Aldus-Presse Reicheneck, Reutlingen 1989.
  • What we are. (Poems). Edition Fiethen-Müller, Viersen 1989.
  • The magic edge. A rude story . June, Mönchengladbach 1989, ISBN 3-926738-06-5 .
  • Poems - linocuts . June, Mönchengladbach 1989, ISBN 3-926738-07-3 .
  • Poems - drawings . June, Mönchengladbach 1989.
  • Poems . Edition Fiethen-Müller, Viersen 1990
  • Poetic March calves. (extended edition). Mönchengladbach 1990, ISBN 3-926738-15-4 .
  • Literature abroad. (Literary reviews). Weidle, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-931135-21-7 .
  • Cartas a Teixeira de Pascoaes. (Letters). Lisboa 1997
  • water closet regained . (Poem), Zoeterwoude 1998
  • Goethe anonymous . An essay from the Goethe year 1949. Reutlingen 1999
  • The godlessness of God or the face of the second island. (Fragment of the novel on CD). Bremerhaven 1999 (The text was destroyed after Thelen's death and is only available on a double CD. The CDs document a reading by Thelen in 1966.)
  • Letters to Teixeira de Pascoaes . Weidle, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-931135-47-0 .
  • My home is myself. Letters 1929 - 1953. Edited and provided with a foreword by Ulrich Faure and Jürgen Pütz. DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9559-5 .
  • In the land of Don Quixote . Three letters from Mallorca, one of them unpublished. With two-tone woodcuts by Stefan Knechtel. Foreword by Jürgen Pütz. Quetsche, Witzwort 2014. ISBN 978-3-939307-60-0 . 77 copies in a slipcase.

Translations

  • Teixeira de Pascoaes : Hieronymus . The poet of friendship . Tiefland, Amsterdam / Leipzig 1941 (first Dutch: Hieronymus, de poet der vriendschap. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1939)
  • Teixeira de Pascoaes: The dark word. Aphorisms . Rascher, Zurich 1949
  • Lou Lichtveld (text), CFA Bruijning (photos): Surinam. New life on old earth . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1957
  • Jan Jacob Slauerhoff : The forbidden realm . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986 ISBN 3-608-95379-5

literature

  • Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester (Ed.): Albert Vigoleis Thelen . Rodopi, Amsterdam 1988 ISBN 90-6203-820-4
  • Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik: A vigolotric world-gazer. The prose of Albert Vigoleis Thelen in connection with the German-language picarro-novel. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1996 ISBN 3-631-49881-0
  • Jürgen Pütz (Ed.): In cases of doubt, the truth decides. Contributions to Albert Vigoleis Thelen . Juni Verlag, Viersen 1988 ISBN 3-926738-01-4
  • Horst Winz (Ed.): Homage to Albert Vigoleis Thelen . Juni Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1989 ISBN 3-926738-04-9
  • Jürgen Pütz: Doppelganger of himself. The narrator Albert Vigoleis Thelen . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1990 ISBN 3-8244-4048-2
  • Lauter Vigoleisiaden or The Second Look at Albert Vigoleis Thelen . Focus issue die horen , 199. Bremerhaven 2000 ISSN  0018-4942
  • Jürgen Pütz (Ed.): Albert Vigoleis Thelen. Ore world peasants and language swindlers. A picture biography . edition die horen, Bremerhaven 2003 ISBN 3-89701-984-1
  • Heinz Eickmans , Lut Missinne (ed.): Albert Vigoleis Thelen. Mediator between languages ​​and cultures . Netherlands Studies, 38. Waxmann, Münster 2005 ISBN 3-8309-1492-X
  • Enno van der Eerden: Ascona, bezield paradijs. Uitgeverij Bas Lubberhuizen, Amsterdam 2012 ISBN 978-90-5937-232-0
  • Moritz Wagner, Magnus Wieland (ed.): Albert Vigoleis Thelen. A modern tragelaph. Perspectives on a multifaceted work. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2019 (Modern Studies, 24) ISBN 978-3-8498-1327-7

Web links

Wikiquote: Albert Vigoleis Thelen  - Quotes

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  1. ↑ http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/Stock.jsp?archivNr=160&tektId=36&expandId=20
  2. ↑ Willem Aalten van den Broek: Paulus the poet of God. The story of a translation. In: Jürgen Pütz (Ed.): In cases of doubt, the truth decides. Contributions to Albert Vigoleis Thelen . June publisher. Viersen 1988, ISBN 3-926738-01-4 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Pütz: Doppelganger of himself. The narrator Albert Vigoleis Thelen . German university publisher. Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-8244-4048-2 , pp. 27-29.
  4. ↑ viersen.de
personal data
SURNAME Thelen, Albert Vigoleis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Addicts
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1989
Place of death Dulken