Feliu Formosa

Feliu Formosa i Torres (born September 10, 1934 in Sabadell ) is a Catalan writer. As a poet , dramaturge , essayist and translator , he is one of the most important contemporary Catalan authors.

Life

Formosa studied Romance philology in Barcelona and German in Heidelberg , where he held a teaching position at the translation institute from 1959 to 1960. From 1960 he worked as a director and actor, initially in independent theater groups, then at various theaters in Terrassa and Barcelona, from 1975 also as a lecturer at the Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, where he taught until 2000.

He also began working as a translator of literary works in the 1960s. To this day, Feliu Formosa has translated over a hundred volumes, mainly from German into Catalan and also into Spanish, including Lessing's Hamburg dramaturgy , Schiller's Räuber and Maria Stuart , selected dramas and stories by Kleist , Wagner's Tannhäuser , Wedekind's Die Büchse der Pandora , Musils The Man Without Qualities (Part III), Kafka's Trial , pieces by Karl Valentin , Brecht's entire stage works, Peter Weiss ' Marat / Sade , Klaus Mann's Mephisto or Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz . His translations of German-language poetry into Catalan include two anthologies with poems from the 16th to 19th and 20th centuries (as editor and co-translator), the anthology of German battle poems "A la paret escrit amb guix" [On the wall was written in chalk ] (together with Artur Quintana ), Trakl's poetic work, Brecht's Bückower elegies and other poems as well as, in Spanish, a volume with poetry by Heine .

Formosa has emerged as a poet since the 1970s. After his debut volume Albes breus a les mans [Brief mornings in the hands] (1973), fifteen more volumes have been published by him, as well as the collected poems up to 2002 under the title Darrere el vidre [Behind the window glass] (2004). His poetry is characterized by a clear, imperfect language that combines thought poetry with realistic elements and does not deny its close relationship to expressionism and surrealism.

Awards

Feliu Formosa has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Premi Carles Riba for poetry, the National Prize for the complete translation of works by the Spanish Ministry of Culture (1994), the Premi Nacional de Teatre de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2002), the Premi d ' Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (2005) [Honorary Prize of Catalan Literature] and much more; He is also a holder of the Creu de Sant Jordi , the highest order of merit of the Catalan government. In 2011 he received the Friedrich Gundolf Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry for teaching German culture abroad.

Translations

A selection of his poetry was published in 2010 in Akzente magazine (issue 4) in the transmission by Àxel Sanjosé

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Formosa, Feliu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Formosa i Torres, Feliu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sabadell