Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano at the Feria del Libro in Madrid, 2008

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † April 13, 2015 ibid) was a Uruguayan journalist , essayist and writer .

Life

At the age of 20 Galeano became deputy editor-in-chief of Marcha , a magazine for culture and politics in Montevideo. He later worked as a manager for several left-wing magazines. In 1973 he was arrested and had to emigrate to Argentina, where he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Crisis . When the military seized power there too, he went into exile in Spain in 1976 , where he published the trilogy Memoria del Fuego in 1984 . He stayed here until the end of the civil- military dictatorship in Uruguay in 1985.

In 1971 the first version of his work Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Eng. The Open Veins of Latin America ) was published, which deals with the history of Latin America , in particular the colonial rule of the old and more recent, and was banned in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.

Galeano was considered one of the literary spokesmen for the theory of dependence . However, he never saw himself as a proponent of a theory, but as the “poet of those down there”, the “common people” who told the story from the perspective of their victims. In recognition of this, he was awarded the Stig Dagerman Prize in 2010 . Galeano holds honorary doctorates from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz , the University of Havana and the University of Neuquén (Argentina).

He died on April 13, 2015 at the age of 74 in his hometown of Montevideo of complications from lung cancer .

Works

• The open veins of Latin America . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1972, ISBN 3-87294-162-3 .
• The ball is round and the goals are lurking everywhere. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-293-20161-X .
• Feet up. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 3-87294-842-3 .
• Memory of the fire:
  • Vol. 1: Births. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 3-87294-212-3 .
  • Vol. 2: Faces and Masks. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1986, ISBN 3-87294-291-3 .
  • Vol. 3: The Century of the Storm. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1988 ISBN 3-87294-361-8 .
• The book of hugs. German by Erich Hackl . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-293-20114-8 .
• Time that speaks. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 978-3-7795-0027-8 .
• The world. German by Erich Hackl. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2007.
• Historia de la resurección del papagayo .
  • German: story of the resurrection of the parrot . Bajazzoverlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-905871-12-8 .
• Children of the day. German by Lutz Kliche. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2013, ISBN 978-3-7795-0435-1 .

Short stories

• El cumpleaños - The birthday
• Cortés

literature

• Erich Hackl : In a tight hug. In: Die Wochenzeitung , Zurich September 13, 1991; Die Presse / Spectrum , 14./15. September 1991. Wv in: In close embrace - stories and reports. Diogenes, Zurich 1996. TB 2002, ISBN 978-3-257-23357-5 , pp. 239-249.

Web links

Commons : Eduardo Galeano  - Collection of Images

Wikiquote: Eduardo Galeano  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Eduardo Galeano in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Eduardo Galeano in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
• Eduardo Galeano in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Eduardo Galeano at perlentaucher.de
• Article by Eduardo Galeano in German at ZNet
• When history breathes. The political poetry of Eduardo Galeano. Broadcast by Karl-Ludolf Hübener on February 10, 2011 on SWR2
• Fallció Eduardo Galeano - Voz de nuestro tiempo (Spanish) on montevideo.com.uy from April 13, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taringa.net: Galeano y la dictatura , online: [1]
2. ↑ Unionsverlag: Author Info, online: [2]
3. ^ Jorge Majfud : El poeta de los de abajo . In: El País, April 14, 2015.
4. ↑ Svenska Dagbladet , May 26, 2010.
5. ^ Peter Hammer Verlag: Author Info, online: [3]
6. ↑ Simon Romero: Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan Voice of Anti-Capitalism, Is Dead at 74. In: The New York Times of April 13, 2015 (accessed April 15, 2015).