Artur Marya Swinarski
Artur Marya Swinarski (born July 28, 1900 in Brodnica , † April 21, 1965 in Switzerland ) was a Polish-Austrian playwright and poet.
Swinarski studied German and art history in Poznan. His “barbaric” comedy Die Hochzeit des Achilles (1963) is also available in German. His collection of poems “Eja!”, Illustrated by Janusz Maria Brzeski (1907–1957), is well known. Eja! Alala ”, with which he glorifies Italian fascism and creates an aesthetic of fascist men's associations in which the individual is absorbed in the male community.
In Poland, in addition to his dramatic works, the author published a number of books with poetry transcriptions by classic German poets into Polish, such as Heinrich Heine , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller , with Johannes R. Becher and Willi Bredel, but also contemporary GDR authors.
Swinarski lived mainly in Poznań and Kraków . In 1959 he emigrated to Vienna and took Austrian citizenship.
Web links
- Literature by and about Artur Marya Swinarski in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Murray G. Hall, Gerhard Renner: Handbook of the estates and collections of Austrian authors . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, Cologne, Weimar. 2nd edition 1995, p. 331 excerpt online via Google Books. Retrieved August 31, 2017
- ↑ Artur Marya Swinarski: E yes! Eja! Alala! . Publishing house nakł. Instytutu Wydawniczego "Arena", 1926.
- ↑ Isabelle Vonlanthen: Poetry for the Fatherland. Nationally committed poetry and journalism in Poland 1926-1939 , dissertation at the University of Freiburg 2009, p. 229 ff. Excerpts online via Google Books. Retrieved August 31, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swinarski, Artur Marya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swinarski, Artur Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish playwright and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brodnica |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1965 |
| Place of death | Switzerland |