Lasgush Poradeci

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Portrait of Gegë Marubi from 1938

Llazar Sotir Gusho (born December 27, 1899 in Pogradec , Albania ; † November 12, 1987 in Tirana or Pogradec), known under the pseudonym Lasgush Poradeci , was one of the most important Albanian poets.

His pseudonym is on the one hand a tribute to his hometown, on the other hand a combination of the first letters of his first name and his last name.

Life

Lasgush Poradeci attended schools in Monastir and Athens and later studied in Bucharest at the Academy of Fine Arts . During his studies, he came into contact with several Albanian and Romanian poets and writers, which would influence his later work, and published his first poems. One of these friends was Aleksandër Stavre Drenova , known as Asdreni , who would later help him with the publication of poems. In 1924 he received a scholarship from the Albanian government and continued his studies at the University of Graz at the Faculty of Romance and German Studies . He spent a total of ten years in Graz . In 1933 he completed a dissertation on the Romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu .

He spent the next few years in Tirana , where he worked as a drawing teacher at a secondary school. After the Communists came to power, he was first unemployed. He later worked as a translator for a state publishing house, where he translated poetry and prose by Heinrich Heine , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Bertolt Brecht and Alexander Puschkin , among others . In 1974 Poradeci retired and lived in poor conditions until his death in 1987. In the summer he occasionally returned to Pogradec.

Lasgush Poradeci was married and had two daughters. He was buried in Pogradec.

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Statue Poradecis in a park in Pogradec

“The admirers of Lasgush Poradeci's art love his wonderful language, the perfect beauty of his verses and the intellectual depth, which he - apart from the mystical verses of Naim Frashëri - was the first to bring into Albanian poetry, which was to a large extent before and after him prescribed national instead of universal themes. "

- Hans-Joachim Lanksch

Lasgush Poradeci published two volumes containing around 100 poems: Vallja e yjve (The Dance of the Stars) appeared in 1933 and Ylli i zemrës (The Star of the Heart) in 1937 . The first volume contains poems that Poradeci wrote between 1921 and 1924. The second volume contains not only newer poems but also revised versions of poems that have already been published. In the following years he published a few poems in magazines. Recurring themes were Lake Ohrid , love and occasionally patriotic themes.

Poradeci was no longer creative under the communist regime. He is said to have called his ideologically compliant translations shit ; he himself did not want to write compliant poems in the style of the required realism . His work was marginalized and barely published.

A first complete edition was published in Pristina in 1978 , followed by an edition of all of his works and writings in Tirana in 1999.

Honor

Poradeci on a 1999 stamp

In Albania streets, squares and schools were named after Lasgush Poradeci.

In 2006 a bronze statue over three meters high was inaugurated in his hometown of Pogradec. The statue was made by the Albanian sculptor Mumtas Dhrami . It depicts the poet with his typical characteristics: he looks towards Lake Ohrid, has his dog and his scarf with him, and his coat pocket contains his many manuscripts, books and binders.

literature

  • Ilir Shyta: Receptimi i Poezisë së Lasgush Poradecit . Dissertation. University of Tirana, Tirana 2015, p. 78 ( edu.al [PDF; accessed July 29, 2019]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Robert Elsie : Lasgush Poradeci Biography. In: albanianliterature.net. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Röhm : Lasgush Poradeci. In: Albanian literature in German translation. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012 ; Retrieved December 29, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Hans-Joachim Lanksch: Lasgush Poradeci . In: newsletter Albania . August 8, 2000, ISSN  1424-5337 ( article online ).
  4. ↑ Lasgush Poradeci, poeti qe i fali famen nje qyteti. Retrieved May 26, 2008, December 29, 2010 (Albanian).
  5. ↑ Werner Daum: Aleks Buda: Memory of Lasgush Poradeci . In: Werner Daum (ed.): Albania between cross and half moon . Pinguin, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7016-2461-5 .
  6. ↑ Monumenti i Lasgush Poradecit. In: pogradec.info. Retrieved September 21, 2012 (Albanian).
  7. ↑ picture of the monument. In: Gazeta Shqip. Retrieved September 21, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Poradeci, Lasgush
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gusho, Llazar Sotir (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Pogradec , Albania
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1987
Place of death Tirana or Pogradec