Anton Popov

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Anton Nikolow Popow (Bulgarian Антон Николов Попов) (born October 25, 1915 in Gega near Petritsch ; † July 23, 1942 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Popov comes from a family of politically persecuted people. He was from the high school in Samokov relegated because he became politically active.

Anton Popov became a teacher in Igumenez, where he set up a boarding house for schoolchildren and a cafeteria for poor alumni. From there he was expelled for political reasons. Popov went to Sofia , where he made friends with the patriotic poet Nikola Wapzarow and became his collaborator. He began his journalistic activities in the editorial office of the magazine Zarja ( The Dawn ) and published stories and poems. Politically he allied himself in secret activity with the Communist Party of Bulgaria. In 1941 he was drafted into the military. He became involved in anti-fascist propaganda among fellow soldiers.

After the arrest of his friend Wapcarow, he went back to Sofia and continued his political work there. In late April 1941 he was arrested by the police and interrogated and tortured continuously during Gesev's 72-day detention.

Anton Popov was on 23 July 1942 at the Central Prison in Sofia firing squad . His farewell letter of July 22, 1942 was published after 1945 in the anthology Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza Europea - Last Letters to Death Convicts from the European Resistance .

The Italian composer Luigi Nono chose ten farewell letters from women, men and young people from this anthology for the text of his choral work Il canto sospeso, written in 1956 - including the letter from Anton Popov.

Reading Anton Popov's farewell letter is part of the concert performance of Luigi Nono's composition Il canto sospeso with Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Berliner Philharmonie in December 1992.

Extract from Anton Popov's letter:

“Sofia, Central Prison July 22, 1942 Dear Mama! Dear brother! Dear sister! I am dying for a world that will shine with such strong light, such beauty, that my own sacrifice is nothing. Take comfort in the thought that for them millions of people died in thousands of battles on the barricades and on the war fronts. Take comfort in the thought that I am dying for righteousness. Take comfort in the thought that our ideas will triumph. Anton "

The farewell letter from Anton Popov in Bulgarian:

"Мила мамо, мили братко, мила сестро, умирам за един свят, който ще блести с тъй силна светлина и ще е тъй красив, че моята собствена жертва няма никакво значение. Утешавайте се с мисълта, че за него са загинали милиони хора в хиляди битки по барикадите е ве венпо. Утешавайте се с мисълта, че нашите идеи са непобедими. Антон "

Further translations of Anton Popov's letter in several languages ​​can be found on the interactive Italian portal Canzoni contro la guerra .

The anthology in which Anton Popov's letter is published also contains a chronology of the occupation of Bulgaria and a haunting description of the events for which the German fascists and the armed forces together with their collaborators were responsible.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza Europea - Last Letters to Death Condemned from the European Resistance , edited by Piero Malvezzi and Giovanni Pirelli, foreword by Thomas Mann - Steinberg-Verlag Zurich 1955, p. 52
  2. ^ The basis of the text of the composition Nonos are also the farewell letters by Andreas Likourinos (Greece), Eleftherios Kiossès (Greece), Konstantinos Sirbas (Greece ) published in the anthology Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza Europea - Last Letters to Death Convicts from the European Resistance ), Chaim (Galicia) , Esther Srul (Poland), Ljubow Grigorjewna Schewzowa (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 .
  4. ^ Anton Popov, Luigi Nono. Il Canto Sospeso
  5. ↑ писмата Il canto sospeso
  6. ^ Canzoni contro la guerra - Lettere Il canto sospeso
  7. ↑ Last letters from the European resistance condemned to death. Edited by Piero Malvezzi and Giovanni Pirelli, foreword by Thomas Mann. Steinberg-Verlag, Zurich 1955, pp. 41–44.
personal data
SURNAME Popov, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Попов, Антон (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Gega at Petritsch
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1942
Place of death Sofia