Arshi Pipa

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Bust in the Archaeological Museum of Shkodra

Arshi Pipa (born July 28, 1920 in Shkodra , † July 20, 1997 in Washington ) was an Albanian man of letters. After the Second World War , he was soon persecuted by the communist regime. He fled Albania and then lived in the United States. There he became one of the most important intellectuals of the Albanian diaspora.

Life

After studying philosophy in Florence , Arshi Pipa worked as a teacher at a lyceum in Tirana from 1941 to 1946 . He was one of those academics who were persecuted by the new communist rulers in Albania immediately after the war. From 1946 to 1956 he was a political prisoner, served in various prisons and had to do forced labor to drain a marshland in southern Albania.

In 1957 Pipa fled to Yugoslavia . The following year he settled in the USA. He worked as a university professor of philosophy and Italian and French literature in Berkeley and Minneapolis . He has written numerous philosophical and literary works, reviews and essays in five different languages: English, Albanian, Italian, French and German. In his political essays he mainly dealt with communism and the regime in Albania. In addition, Pipa worked as the editor of cultural journals for the Albanians in exile; he was also chairman of the traditional Albanian cultural association Vatra in Boston . Pipa was keen to ensure that the cultural and literary traditions of the Albanians were preserved and continued outside the communist sphere of influence. He was committed to this for more than three decades.

At the time of political change in Albania (1990), Pipa led a sharp campaign against the most famous Albanian writer Ismail Kadare on the Albanian radio program of American foreign stations . He accused him of only being the court clerk Enver Hoxhas and thus a pillar of the regime. Kadare contributed nothing to the end of communism in Albania. The latter answered in his book of revolution, Albanischer Frühling , where he described Pipa as an author without literary originality.

Arshi Pipa died in exile in America. He was buried on July 24, 1997 in Washington. His work has remained largely unknown in Albania. Even after the fall of the communist regime, he received little recognition in his home country.

Works

Single fonts (selection)
  • Lundërtarë. (German seafarer) , Tirana 1944
  • Libri i castle property. (German prison book) , 1959
  • Rusha. Munich 1968
  • Montale and Dante. Minneapolis 1968
  • Meridiana. Munich 1969
  • Albanian folk verse. Structure and genre. Munich 1978
  • Albanian literature. Social perspectives. Munich 1978
  • Hieronymus de Rada. Munich 1978
  • Studies on Kosova (jointly edited with Sami Repishti), New York 1984.
  • The politics of language in socialist Albania. New York 1989
  • Albanian Stalinism. Ideo-political aspects. New York 1990
  • Contemporary Albanian literature. New York 1991
  • Subversion is three compliant. Fenomeni Kadare. (Eng. Subversion or conformism. The Kadare phenomenon) , Tirana 1999 - posthumous
Work editions
  • Poezi, ed. v. Rexhep Ismajli, Pejë 1998
  • Vepra. Tirana 2000 ff.

literature

  • Uranium Kalakulla: Arshi Pipa. Njeriu dhe vepra . Tirana 1999.
  • Peter Bartl: Arshi Pipa (1920-1997) . In: Südost-Forschungen 56 (1997) pp. 465-468.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.howtopronounce.com/arshi
personal data
SURNAME Pipa, Arshi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian author
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Shkodra
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1997
Place of death Washington