António Ferro (journalist)
António Joaquim Tavares Ferro (born August 17, 1895 in Lisbon , † November 11, 1956 ibid) was a Portuguese journalist, publisher, critic, diplomat and politician.
Life
In 1915 he was editor of the pioneering literary magazine Orpheu , in 1922 director of the magazine Illustração Portuguesa , and in 1923 editor of the newspaper Diário de Notícias . In 1925 he founded Panorama magazine and the Teatro Novo theater . In addition, he published various books on topics from art, philosophy and society.
After the military coup in 1926 and the final establishment of the semi-fascist Estado Novo in 1932, in 1933 he became head of the regime's propaganda, the Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional (SPN), which from 1945 became the Secretáriado Nacional de Informação (SNI, German: National Secretariat for Information ) and which he headed until 1950. He owed his entry into politics to his book Salazar , published in 1933 , in which he had published five extensive interviews with dictator Salazar from 1932. The book was subsequently published in France, Chile and Spain, Poland and England, with a foreword by Salazar.
In 1941, in addition to his function as head of the SPN, he became program director of the state radio, the Emissora Nacional . In 1948 he founded the Film Institute and Film Museum of Portuguese Films with the Cinemateca Portuguesa . He was also the organizer of the Portuguese representation at various tourism and world exhibitions, and founder of the Lisbon folk art museum Museu de Arte Popular and the dance company Grupo de Bailados Verde Gaio . He is the author of several dozen books, including plays, political and cultural-political writings, and biographies, etc. a.
reception
António Ferro did not excel as an ideologist of the regime. Rather, his attention was directed to the leisure activities of the citizens, which he considered necessary to organize in order to prevent the emergence of oppositional currents in the broader population. While the FNAT ( Fundaçao Nacional para Alegria no Trabalho , German: National Foundation for Enjoyment of Work; today Inatel ) organized the practical side of the citizens' leisure time activities, Ferro wanted to ensure the theoretical side of this task and specify the content. As an educated citizen with a wide range of cultural interests, he saw the modern mass media of cinema and radio in particular as a suitable field of activity.
In his work as head of propaganda, he mainly focused on simple, rural Portugal. In complete agreement with the Salazar regime, he propagated an original, civilizationally deserved and self-satisfied Portugal, both internally and externally, for example in the tourist portrayal. It was only after 1949, especially when Ferro left the SNI in 1950, that propaganda turned more towards the country's urban population.
In particular among conservative-bourgeois circles in Portugal, he is still regarded today as a historical figure who has earned a reputation for culture, tourism and progress. For example, Ferro's followers have a Facebook page for him.
Web links
- Literature by and about António Ferro in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website dedicated to António Ferro
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BIOGRAFIA. Fundação António Quadros, accessed April 10, 2020 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Person encyclopedia Quém É Quém - Portugueses Célebres. 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, page 218 ( ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 )
- ↑ www.acultura.no.sapo.pt ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ www.facebook.com/antoniojtferro , accessed on October 21, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferro, Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tavares Ferro, António Joaquim (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese journalist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1956 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |