Antun Branko Šimić

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Antun Branko Šimić

Antun Branko Šimić (born November 18, 1898 in Drinovci near Grude as Ante Šimić ; † May 2, 1925 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian writer of expressionism . His poetry has an economical, sincere and serious expression and still has an impact on today's generation of Croatian poets .

Life

Antun Branko Šimić was born on November 18, 1898 in Drinovci, in western Herzegovina, as the second of nine children to parents Martin (* 1871) and Vida Šimić (* 1873, nee Tomas). Šimić was baptized in the local church Sveti Mihovil in the name of Ante . Three of his siblings died in childhood.

After attending elementary school in Drinovci visited Simic from 1910 the Franciscans - high school in Široki Brijeg . In the fourth grade he moved to the High School in Mostar and after a few weeks to the High School in Vinkovci . In 1913, Šimić published his first verses in the Zagreb magazine Luča under the pseudonym Slavče . Further verses in 1914 in the journal Pobratim . In the autumn of 1915, Šimić went to the Croatian capital Zagreb and graduated from the sixth and seventh high school grades at the lower town high school. Then he broke off school in favor of literature .

From December 1917 to February 1919, Šimić published the literary magazine Vijavica (The Snowstorm) and, from 1919, together with Nika Miličević and Gustav Krklec, the magazine Juriš (The attack). The project fails due to cost reasons and differences of opinion within the group. In addition, Šimić worked on Miroslav Krleža's magazine Plamen (The Flame).

In May 1920, Šimić published his poetry collection Preobraženja (Metamorphoses) with 48 poems. This successful realization of his poetry offered something completely new at the time. In addition, he published in almost all important art and culture magazines but also in newspapers such as Jutarnji list (Morgenblatt).

In 1924 he founded the Revue Književnik (The Writer) and in the same year fell ill with pneumonia and pleurisy . To relax, Šimić traveled to Dubrovnik at the end of the summer . In November 1924 his health deteriorated, so that he returned to Zagreb at the beginning of 1925, where he died in May of the same year. Šimić was buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb.

The writer Ivan Goran Kovačić wrote about Šimić:

“His vineyard ripened early, and the overripe grapes made a heavy, strong, deadly wine, of which you can not drink much, but drink often and for a long time. He cultivated, studied, and perfected his language. He was like the old masters, who made their own paints according to various recipes and primed the canvases themselves. He paid attention to all mistakes, was annoyed about small things, wrongly placed commas and misprints could make him white hot ... His abundant spiritual life, among other factors, became the cause of his physical death. It was all on fire, and only the earth could extinguish this fire. "

Works (selection)

  • Preobraženja [metamorphoses] . Zagreb May 1920.
  • Izabrane pjesme [Selected Poems] . Izvanredno izdanje Matice hrvatske, Zagreb 1933.
  • Pjesme [poems] (=  volume 68 of Mala biblioteka ). Državno izdavačko poduzeće Hrvatske Zora, Zagreb 1950.
  • Sabrana djela [Collected Works] (=  Domaći pisci . 3 vol.). Znanje, Zagreb 1960.
  • Pjesme i proza ​​[poems and prose] (=  volume 99 by Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti ). Matica hrvatska - Zora, Zagreb 1963.
  • Sabrana djela [Collected Works] (=  Biblioteka izabrana djela . 2 vols.). “August Cesarec” publishing house, Zagreb 1988 (new edition for the 100th birthday by Dom & svijet publishing house, 1998).

Afterlife

Šimić is shown on the 20 convertible mark banknote, in the version for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Croatia issued a special stamp on the occasion of Šimić's 100th birthday in 1998 . For Bosnia and Herzegovina , the Croatian Post Mostar issued a special stamp, a special postmark and a first day cover and card in 1999 .

In 2005, the leading Croatian cultural association Matica hrvatska Šimić erected a statue in Mostar . The monument was made by the sculptor Josip Ivanović . There are also busts of Šimić in Drinovci, Grude and Kijevo .

Since 1998 the Association of Croatian Writers Herceg-Bosnas (Društvo hrvatskih književnika Herceg Bosne) in Mostar has awarded the Antun-Branko-Šimić Prize every year.

Literature (selection)

  • Viktor Žmegač: Antun Branko Šimić as a poet . In: Die Welt der Slaven: Quarterly journal for Slavistics . Vol. III, No. 2 . Wiesbaden 1958, p. 151-166 .
  • Ivofrageš: History of Croatian Literature: From the Beginnings to the Present . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995, p. 380-383 u. 904 f .
  • Nataša Valović: Croatian Expressionism based on the example of a poem "Tijelo i mi" by Antun Branko Simic . Maintal 2007, ISBN 3-9804842-4-6 .

Web links

Wikisource: Pjesme (Šimić)  - Sources and full texts (Croatian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivo FraGes: History of Croatian Literature: From the beginning to the present . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995, p. 382 .
  2. ↑ Ivo FraGes: History of Croatian Literature: From the beginning to the present . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995, p. 381 .
  3. ↑ Ivan Goran Kovačić: Pjesnik tijela i siromaha , 1940. In: Tea Benčić Rimay: Antun Branko Šimić: Chronology . Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Information on the postage stamp on the official website of the Croatian Post. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 2, 2015 ; accessed on December 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Šimić, Antun Branko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šimić, Ante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Drinovci
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1925
Place of death Zagreb