Gustav Krklec

Gustav Krklec (1969)

Gustav Krklec ( Cyrillic  Густав Крклец ; born June 23, 1899 in Karlovac , Austria-Hungary ; † October 30, 1977 in Zagreb , SFR Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav poet .

Life

He was the son of Gustav Krklec and Hermine Wells. The family came from the village of Lupinjak, not far from Krapina in the Croatian Zagorje , moved at the beginning of the 20th century for professional reasons of their father to Maruševac, a village between Varaždin and Ivanec in Croatian Zagorien , where Krklec spent his youth together with his siblings ( two brothers, three sisters). From 1905 he attended elementary school there. During the school holidays he often traveled to Budapest , where his mother's relatives lived. In 1909 he came to Varaždin and attended the classical grammar school. In the second school year there he lived with the then well-known director of the elementary school Mihovil Palmović, the brother of the poet Andrija Palmović .

It was there that he first came into contact with the poetry of Andrija Palmović, which had a great influence on him. The poets and writers Zvonko Milković , Branko Radičević and Pero Magerl Gotalovački had other great influences .

In 1912 he took part in a strike and a demonstration against the regime of Banus Čuvaja , which is why he often had to relocate and change jobs. In 1915 he left Varaždin and moved to Zagreb . During this time he read works by important writers such as A. Šantić, SS Kranjčević, V. Nazor, AG Matoš, V. Vidrić, I. Sekulić. With Antun Branko Šimić he got enthusiastic about the poems of Verlaine , Rilke and the German Expressionists. He published his work in "Ilustrirani list" and "Koprive" under various pseudonyms: Kage, Kumordinar Žorž, Pik, Pub and others

After completing the seventh grade of high school, he went to Sušak , where he graduated from high school in 1918. During his stay in Sušak he got to know the poetry of Vladimir Nazor more thoroughly. In autumn he then attended the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . Together with Antun Branko Šimić and Nika Miličević , Krklec started the magazine "Juriš" (attack) in 1919. The company failed due to cost reasons and differences of opinion within the group. Also in 1919 he met the Croatian writer Tin Ujević , with whom he spent a lot of time in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Split and other cities. In the same year he married his wife Persida Karsnijević, with whom he was married until 1925. In 1921 his son Srda was born, but he died four years later. His daughter Gordana was born in Zemun in 1922. In September 1941 he moved to Zemun and married his second wife Mirjana Jovanović on October 1st. In 1947 his daughter Katarina was born.

In 1976 he became seriously ill and died in October 1977. He was buried on November 2, 1977 in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb

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From 1915 he published songs and poems in the magazine "Šišmiš", usually under the pseudonim Kage . In 1920 he published his first and only novel Beskućnici and in the same year his second collection of poems Srebrna cesta appeared . In 1923 Krklec became more and more involved in translation. He translates I. Renn ( Council ), Erich Kästner ( Emil i detektivi ) a. a. In 1926 his collection Ljubav ptica appeared in Belgrade , for which he was awarded. He then traveled to Paris, where he met Isaak Babel , Ilja Ehrenburg and Ernest Hemingway . In 1951 he published the Lirska petoljetka collection , in 1954 the book Lica i krajolici , in 1955 the Žubor života collection and in 1961 Izabrane pjesme . In 1969 he received the Vladimir Nazor Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1970 he designed picture books for children. In the same year a children's film was made based on texts from the Majmun i naočale collection . In 1971 his book Pisci i djela was published . His poems have been translated into German, French, Hungarian, Czech and English.

Honors

A primary school in Zagreb is named after him.

Individual evidence

Web links

• Obituary of the National and University Library in Zagreb
• Literature by and about Gustav Krklec in the catalog of the German National Library