August Cesarec

August Cesarec (born December 4, 1893 in Zagreb , Austria-Hungary ; † July 17, 1941 near Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia ) was a Serbo-Croatian-speaking writer, translator, publicist and politician who was executed at the age of 47 by the fascist puppet regime of the Independent State of Croatia has been. Along with Miroslav Krleža, Kindler's Neues Literaturlexikon counts the active communists “among the most important socially committed authors of Croatian literature between the world wars”. Cesarec's books are not yet available in German.

Life

Even the Zagreb student joined the nationalist forces that worked for the overthrow of the Danube Monarchy and an independent state for all southern Slavs. In 1912 Cesarec was sentenced to three years in prison for complicity in the murder of the imperial commissioner Slavko Cuvaj , but only had to serve two years. While in custody, he dealt with the writings of Stirner and Kropotkins , among other things . As a soldier in World War I, however, he warmed himself to the Russian Revolution and Marxism-Leninism. After the war he joined the young Communist Party (Yugoslavia). On behalf of the party he traveled frequently, including to Moscow and Republican Spain. Nonetheless, Cesarec always devoted himself to writing short stories and even a study of psychology (published 1932). He was already enthusiastic about literature as a teenager and founded the literary magazine Plamen (Flamme) together with Miroslav Krleža in 1919 , which, however, was soon banned. The rise of fascism pushed the party worker Cesarec underground. In March 1941, a few days before the invasion of the Axis powers , he was imprisoned with 90 other left-wing intellectuals in his country. After the invasion, the prisons were the new, pro-Hitler Ustasha taken regime. The Communist Party organized an escape from prisoners, but most of the refugees were recaptured and executed without further ado, Cesarec among them.

Honors

Bust of August Cesarec in Zagreb

In the fourth largest city in Croatia Osijek is a street, in Zagreb's old town an entire district is named after August Cesarec.

Works

Đački pokret , Zagreb 1912 (under the pseudonym Budislav Mirković)

Stihovi , poems, Zagreb 1919

Sudite me , Zagreb 1922

Careva kraljevina , novel, 1925 (The Imperial Kingdom)

Stjepan Radić i republika , Zagreb 1925

Za novim putem , Zagreb 1926

Zlatni mladić i njegove žrtve , novella, Koprivnica 1928

Uskrs i smrt cara Lazara , story, 1928 (Resurrection and death of Prince Lazar)

Tonkina jedina ljubav , short story, 1931 (Tonka's only love)

Psihoanlazia i individualna psihologija , study, 1932 (Psychoanalysis and individual psychology ).

Bjegunci , Zagreb 1933

Današnja Rusija , Zagreb 1938 (under the pseudonym Vuk Korneli)

Španjolski susreti , Toronto 1938

Izraelov izlazak i druge legende , Zagreb 1938

Novele , Zagreb 1939

Putovanje po Sovjetskom Savezu , Zagreb 1940

Na Ukrajini , Zagreb 1940

Kod sovjetskih malih naroda , Zagreb 1940

Sin domovine , Zagreb 1940

Published posthumously

Smijeh Jude Iškarijota , short story, Zagreb 1946

Put u novi život , Zagreb 1947

Slučaj kolportera Ferića , Zagreb 1949

Legend i druge pripovijesti , Zagreb 1951

Kći crne ruke - Ćuk u njenome duplju , Zagreb 1951

Kriza stranke prava i naši 'komunari' 1871 , Zagreb 1951

Majka božja bistrička , Roman, Zagreb 1955

Izabrane pjesme , Zagreb 1961

Izbor članaka , Belgrade 1962

Svjetlost u mraku , Zagreb 1963

Na posljednjim tračnicama , Zagreb 1963

Eseji i putopisi , Zagreb-Belgrade-Sarajevo 1964

Otkriće , Dramas and Fragments, Zagreb 1965

AUGUST CESAREC I , Zagreb 1966

Brodolom obitelji Rožman , Belgrade 1968

Bijeli lutalac , Zagreb 1982

literature

Ladislav Žimbrek: Knjizevna ostavstina August Cesarec , in: Republika 12/1953
Marin Franicevic: August Cesarec , in: Republika 1/1962
Mehmed Meša Selimović : August Cesarec , in: Zivot 3/1964
Miroslav Krleža : August Cesarec , in: Forum 4/1965
Vice Zaninovic: August Cesarec , Belgrade 1966
Zorica Stipetic: Argumneti za revoluciju - August Cesarec , Zagreb 1982

Web links

Commons : Category: August Cesarec - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Edition Munich 1988
↑ According to Kindlers, this novel "from Cesarec 's expressionist creative period" takes place on just one day in 1912 in the Zagreb remand prison, but gives a (critical) sketch of the entire prewar period since 1900 of the Croatian Kingdom (dependent on Vienna and Budapest)
↑ This novella is about the proverbial "golden youth" of rich or otherwise favored offspring
↑ According to Mirjana Stančić, Wiesbaden, 1994, accessed April 15, 2011 , to Cesarec had in the 1920s under the influence Sperber of individual psychology approximated. Incidentally, this author thinks that Cesarec wrote “some of the most beautiful stories in Croatian literature”, including Careva kraljevina and Tonkina jedina ljubav .

personal data
SURNAME	Cesarec, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian writer, translator, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH	July 17, 1941
Place of death	near Zagreb

[1] Edition Munich 1988

[2] According to Kindlers, this novel "from Cesarec 's expressionist creative period" takes place on just one day in 1912 in the Zagreb remand prison, but gives a (critical) sketch of the entire prewar period since 1900 of the Croatian Kingdom (dependent on Vienna and Budapest)

[3] This novella is about the proverbial "golden youth" of rich or otherwise favored offspring

[4] According to Mirjana Stančić, Wiesbaden, 1994, accessed April 15, 2011 , to Cesarec had in the 1920s under the influence Sperber of individual psychology approximated. Incidentally, this author thinks that Cesarec wrote “some of the most beautiful stories in Croatian literature”, including Careva kraljevina and Tonkina jedina ljubav .