Andreas Likourinos

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Andreas Likourinos ( Greek Ανδρέας Λυκουρίνος , * 1929 in Kallithea ; † September 5, 1943 in Kesariani ) was the youngest known executed member of the Greek resistance against the German occupation .

Life

As a 14-year-old student, Andreas Likourinos performed courier services between different units of the left resistance movement EAM . He was arrested in Kallithea on May 13, 1943, following a denunciation when he was carrying an order from another sector of the Greek capital, Athens . He was tortured in the Gestapo prison on Merlinstrasse in Athens and then taken to the Chaidari concentration camp near Athens.

On September 5, he was taken to Kesariani with seven other resistance fighters and shot without trial .

From the truck that transported the eight prisoners through Athens for execution, he threw a written notice to his father, which was picked up by passers-by:

"Father!
They are taking me to Kesariani for the execution , along with seven other arrested persons ... [surnames and first names follow]
I ask you very much to inform their families. Do not be sad. I am dying for freedom and the fatherland.
Andreas "

Artistic reception

The Italian composer Luigi Nono chose ten farewell letters from women, men and young people for the text of his choral work Il canto sospeso, written in 1956, from the anthology Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza Europea - including the letter from Andreas Likourinos.

Reading the farewell letter from Andreas Likourinos was part of the concert performance of Luigi Nono's composition Il canto sospeso with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic in the Berlin Philharmonic in December 1992.

literature

  • Piero Malvezzi, Giovanni Pirelli (ed.): Lettere di condannati a morte della resistenza europea - Letters from those sentenced to death from the European resistance , with a foreword by Thomas Mann, Giulio Einaudi publishing house, Turin 1954 (first edition)
  • Jean Lartéguy: Les jeunes du monde devant la guerre: documents . Gallimard, Paris 1955, ISBN 978-2-07-023750-0 , pp. 195, 200
  • Audio CD Luigi Nono 'Il canto sospeso', Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Claudio Abbado , speakers: Susanne Lothar and Bruno Ganz - Sony Classical 1993 (documentation booklet)
  • DVD Luigi Nono Il canto sospeso special edition EU 2013 for German schools abroad - Patronage: Guido Westerwelle , Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs © Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin ISBN 978-3-943933-00-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Likourinos, Luigi Nono. Il Canto Sospeso
  2. ^ The basis of the text of Nono's composition are also those in the anthology Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza Europea | Last letters of death convicted from the European resistance published farewell letters from Anton Popov (Bulgaria), Eleftherios Kiossès (Greece), Konstantinos Sirbas (Greece), Chaim (Galicia) , Esther Srul (Poland), Lyubow Grigoryevna Shevtsova (USSR), Irina Malozon (USSR), Eusebio Giambone (Italy) and Elli Voigt (Germany).
  3. ↑ The recording of the concert is the basis of the so-called Nonoprojekt - an initiative by Claudio Abbado and a group of friends IncontriEuropei for schools in Europe, whose sponsorship was later taken over in 2001 by the Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin . Website for the nonoproject
personal data
SURNAME Likourinos, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Λυκουρίνος, Ανδρέας
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kallithea
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1943
Place of death Kesariani