Joan Brossa

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Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa: Walk-in visual poem in three times, Velòdrom, Barcelona

Joan Brossa i Cuervo [Catalan pronunciation: ʒuˈam ˈbɾɔsə i ˈkwervu ] (born January 19, 1919 in Barcelona ; † December 30, 1998 ibid) was a poet , writer , playwright and graphic and plastic artist , the most representative Catalan author of the avant-garde of the 20th century Century. As he himself said: “The genres of the arts are different means of expressing a single reality. They are sides of the same pyramid that meet at the highest point. "

Life

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) he began to write occasionally. Back in Barcelona he met J.V. Foix , Joan Miró and Joan Prats . Thanks to their advice, and within a neosurrealistischen line he began sonnets , Sapphic odes , Sestinen , Freipoeme (throughout more than 80 books, all in Catalan ) and plays that he (more than 350 works) to write "stage poetry" called. Following the futuristic parameters, he also realized his first visual poems in 1941. 1943 was his first objet trouvé , 1950 its first combination of distant objects, and in 1956 its first installation (in the window of a shop). Together with Antoni Tàpies , Modest Cuixart , Joan Ponç , Arnau Puig and Joan-Josep Tharrats , he founded the magazine Dau al Set in 1947 .

Through the encounter with the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto , Brossa's poetry took on more socially critical traits from 1950 - with the book Em va fer Joan Brossa ('How Joan Brossa came about'). During the 1960s, he experimented with visual poetry and objects, a terrain he would never leave again. At the same time he began working with artists such as Tàpies and Miró, which he would later expand to include plastic artists of all generations. Beginning with his first retrospective at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (1986), the poet's exhibitions gained continuity. In 1991, an exhibition at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid made him internationally known. In addition, his works reached the public through what are known as “physical poems”, such as the poema visual transitable en tres parts (“Walk-in visual poem in three parts”) in the Velodrome of Barcelona (1984). His huge literary production, however, did not end in spite of this turn to plastic.

In the field of theater, he wrote stage acts as early as the 1940s and practiced other paratheatrical genres, such as transformation monologues, ballets and concerts, including the pieces created in collaboration with Josep M. Mestres Quadreny and Carles Santos Ventura , as well as the text theater, the opera text books and cinema scripts (for Pere Portabella , Carlos Atanes and others) should be highlighted.

On an international level, alongside his participation in the São Paulo Biennale in 1993 and the Venice Biennale in 1997, the exhibitions in Munich (1988), New York (1989), Céret - Collioure (1991), London and Chicago (1992), Mexico -Stadt , Monterrey , Kassel and Göppingen (1998) and in Göteborg (1998). The monumental exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (2001) after his death contributed to the final consolidation of his position. Since then, other anthological exhibitions have been shown in Santiago de Chile , São Paulo, Porto Alegre , Rio de Janeiro , Rosario , Buenos Aires , Lisbon , Vienna , Prague , Stockholm , Paris , Berlin , Warsaw , Mexico City and Marseille .

In the last years of his life, Joan Brossa received numerous awards for several genres from various international institutions. In 1998 UNESCO awarded him the " Picasso Medal".

Works

Joan Brossa: Gift of honor for the book, Passeig de Gràcia , Barcelona
Joan Brossa: Lying A with fish, City Hall of Mollet del Vallès

selection

  • Poesia escènica. 6 volumes. Edicions 62, Barcelona 1973–1983, ISBN 84-297-1148-1 (theater).
  • Poemes objects. Servicios Editoriales, Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-85546-00-8 (Visual Poetry).
  • L'illusionniste. Orphée / La Différence, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7291-0734-7 (Bilingual anthology in Catalan and French).
  • Poesia rasa I and II. Edicions 62, Barcelona 1991, ISBN 84-297-3148-2 and ISBN 84-297-3296-9 .
  • El tentetieso. Plaza & Janés, Barcelona 1991, ISBN 84-01-59018-3 (translation in Spanish).
  • Cartells 1975-1999. Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-95166-09-7 .
  • A partir del silenci. Cercle de Lectors / Galàxia Gutenberg, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-8109-350-5 (Polymorphic Anthology).
  • La piedra abierta. Círculo de Lectores / Galàxia Gutenberg, Barcelona 2003, ISBN 84-672-0010-3 (Bilingual anthology in Catalan and Spanish).
  • Poesia tipogràfica. Ajuntament / Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 2004, ISBN 84-7609-407-8 (visual poetry).
  • Poemes civils. URDLA, Villeurbanne 2010, ISBN 978-2-914839-35-8 (bilingual in Catalan and French).
  • Strip-tease et théâtre irregulier suivi de Actions musicales. Éditions de l'Amandier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-35516-119-3 (translation in French).
  • Les etceteras. cipM, Marseille 2011, ISBN 978-2-909097-91-6 (visual poetry).
  • Joan Brossa. Poemes visuals. Enciclopèdia Catalana, Barcelona 2014, ISBN 978-84-412-2284-7 (reproduction of all his serialized graphic works).

German translations

  • The wild head. Translation by José Luís de Sàled and Bert Raingässer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne-Marienburg 1962, OCLC 253814005 .
  • Poetry. Translation by Johannes Hösle and Antoni Pous. In: Accents . No. 4 (August), 1974.
  • Poems. Translation by Rainer Chrapkowski. In: Park. Journal for New Literature [Heidelberg-Berlin] No. 7 (September), 1978.
  • Fourth acting action. Translation by Rainer Chrapkowski. First issue. [Berlin] (November), 1978.
  • Post theater. Translation by Rainer Chrapkowski. In: Theater Today . No. 2 (February), 1979.
  • Poems. Translation by Cristina Fernández Reumann. In: Felipe Boso, Ricardo Bada (ed.): A ship made of water. Spanish literature today. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-462-01391-2 .
  • Poems. Translation by Til Stegmann and Uwe Grüning . In: A Game of Mirrors. Catalan poetry of the 20th century. Reclam, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-379-00222-4 , pp. 130-145.
  • Miró Museum. Translation by Trudel Meisenburg. In: the hear . Journal for literature, art and criticism. No. 158, year 35, 2nd quarter, 1990.
  • Poems and graphics. Translation by Sabine Sattel. In: Women and their picture (= privateers . No. 48). [Berlin] 1991.
  • Poems. Translation by Sabine Sattel. In: The Symbolists and Richard Wagner. Edited by Wolfgang Storch . Employee Josef Mackert. Hentrich, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89468-008-3 , p. 44 f. (Exhibition catalog; translation of foreign language texts).
  • Poems. Translation by Roger Friedlein. In: the hear. Journal for literature, art and criticism. No. 178, 1995.
  • Visual poetry. Translation by Frank Henseleit. In: Kupido. Journal of Art and Poetry. No. 1, [Dortmund] 1995.
  • Poems. Translation by Til Stegmann. In: Creativity in Joan Brossa's Poems. In: Journal of Catalan Studies . No. 9, 1996, pp. 72-102 ( romanistik.uni-freiburg.de [PDF; 1.3 MB]).
  • This is how Joan Brossa was born. Translation by Frank Henseleit-Lucke. Mosel and Chekhov, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-925987-19-3 (translation into German).
  • Poems. Translation by Til Stegmann. In: Roger Friedlein, Barbara Richter (ed.): The specialty of the house. New Catalan literature. Babel, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-928551-29-9 .
  • Poems. Translation by Til Stegmann. In: Constellations. Kulturamt Fellbach, Stadt Fellbach 1998, ISBN 3-9805984-1-1 (exhibition catalog).

literature

  • Glòria Bordons: Introducció a la poesia de Joan Brossa. Edicions 62, Barcelona 1988, ISBN 978-84-297-2729-6 .
  • Jordi Coca: Joan Brossa. Oblidar i caminar. Edicions de la Magrana, Barcelona 1992, ISBN 84-7410-617-6 .
  • Rubén Simon and others: Joan Brossa. La Forest d'Arana, Valencia 1994, ISBN 84-604-9314-8 .
  • Isidre Vallès i Rovira: Joan Brossa: Les sabates són més que un pedestal. Editorial Alta Fulla, Barcelona 1996, ISBN 84-7900-068-6 .
  • Lluís Permanyer: Brossa x Brossa. Records. La Campana, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-88791-71-2 .
  • Vicenç Altaió among others: Joan Brossa or the Poetic Revolt. KRTU, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-393-5344-8 .
  • Glòria Bordons among others: Aprendre amb Joan Brossa. Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona 2003, ISBN 84-8338-380-2 .
  • Eduard Planas: La poesia escènica de Joan Brossa. Associació d'Investigació i Experimentació Teatral, Barcelona 2002, ISBN 84-607-5294-1 .
  • Joan Brossa desde Barcelona al Nuevo Mundo. Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona 2004, ISBN 84-933081-1-0 .
  • Daniel Giralt-Miracle among others: Brossian Itineraries. Ajuntament / Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-933081-6-1 .
  • Joan Brossa en las alturas y sin red. Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo 2007, ISBN 978-84-7788-479-8 .
  • Bverso Brossa. Instituto Cervantes, Madrid 2008, ISBN 978-84-88252-41-8 .
  • Jordi Marrugat: "El saltamartí" by Joan Brossa. Les mil cares del poeta. Arola, Tarragona 2009, ISBN 978-84-92408-54-2 .
  • John London: Contextos de Joan Brossa. L'acció, la imatge i la paraula. Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-475-3428-9 .
  • Glòria Bordons, Marc Audí: Joan Brossa entre la paraula, el gest i la imatge. Enciclopèdia Catalana, Barcelona 2014, ISBN 978-84-412-2286-1 .
  • Ainize González García: Joan Brossa, artes visuales. Ixorai Llibres, Barcelona 2015, ISBN 978-84-15987-01-7 .

Web links

Commons : Joan Brossa  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poesia ( Memento of 20 October 2013 Internet Archive ). In: joanbrossa.org, accessed June 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Brossa, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brossa i Cuervo, Joan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer and plastic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1998
Place of death Barcelona