Gaston Bart-Williams

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Gaston Bart-Williams (born March 3, 1938 in Freetown , Sierra Leone , † August 28, 1990 ibid) was an exiled opposition activist , journalist, director, writer and artist from Sierra Leone. He is the father of musician Patrice Bart-Williams and Mallence Bart-Williams, founder of the FOLORUNSHO creative collective in Freetown.

Life

Gaston Bart-Williams' poetry and prose are well known in Sierra Leone and Europe. With Michael Buthe and Wolf Vostell he formed a kind of artist group. There were pictures of both in his house, there was a film by Bart-Williams with Michael Buthe and other artists, and poems by Bart Williams based on pictures by Vostell.

Poems by Bart-Williams inspired his son Patrice Bart-Williams , who included them in parts of his song lyrics , such as You always you . He named his son Patrice Bart-Williams after Patrice Lumumba , the first President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

Bart Williams made successful films about relations between Africa and Europe, for example about European artists who are close to certain aspects of African cultures ( Susanne Wenger , Michael Buthe , Wolf Vostell , Volker A. Hamann ). In 1972 the WDR produced his radio play Die Droge under the direction of Heinz von Cramer , which deals with “other drugs” in addition to “real drugs”, just like the new media.

Gaston Bart-Williams was killed in a boat accident off the coast of West Africa.

Publications

  • 1972 The drug , WDR (radio play) [1]
  • In Praise of Madness / Zum Ruhm des Wahnsinns , published by Afrika Forum eV (radio play and book with illustrations by Inge Jung)
  • Uhuru (radio play)
  • African roots , three-part series, ZDF: Part 1: The Nile Valley - Source of Cultures, May 19, 1991 (Wh.) [2] , Part 2: The Niger and West Africa, May 26, 1991 (Wh.) [3 ] , Part 3 (no source)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Invasion of Compassion? Liberia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. A politically literary theme evening. (PDF; 32 kB) (No longer available online.) German-speaking Swiss PEN Center, October 13, 2003, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pen-dschweiz.ch  
personal data
SURNAME Bart-Williams, Gaston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sierra Leonean exiled oppositionist, journalist, director, writer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Freetown , Sierra Leone
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1990
Place of death Freetown , Sierra Leone