Lucía Sánchez Saornil

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Lucía Sánchez Saornil, 1933

Lucía Sánchez Saornil (born September 13, 1895 in Madrid , † June 2, 1970 in Valencia ) was a Spanish writer and anarchist . She was one of the founders of the feminist organization Mujeres Libres .

Life

Saornil was born into an impoverished Madrid family and raised by her widowed father. In 1916 she started working as a telephone operator at Telefónica , but at the same time studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in her native city. From 1919 her literary texts were increasingly published in magazines. At that time the author wrote mostly under a male pseudonym .

In the 1930s she turned increasingly to anarcho-syndicalism and, by participating in a strike, also directed herself against her employer, Telefónica. She then worked for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo , and later for another anarchist-anti-fascist organization.

In 1936, three months before the start of the Spanish Civil War , she founded the anarchist-feminist organization Mujeres Libres ( free women ) together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón . This united over 20,000 women who actively fought against the fascist Franco dictatorship . While working as a journalist in Valencia , the lesbian Saornil met her future partner, América Barroso.

After Franco's victory, the couple were forced to emigrate to Paris, but due to the German occupation of France in the early 1940s, they returned to Madrid, where Saornil worked in image processing . Soon they left Madrid again, this time for Valencia. Her partner there had family ties, which Saornil could only lead the relationship to in secret because of the emerging persecution by the Franco regime. Saornil continued the work she started in Madrid until her death from cancer in 1970.

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Saornil published a variety of poems and other literary texts that are attributed to ultraism . She often used literature as a means of expressing her political convictions and published in anarchist and feminist magazines.

literature

  • Guillaume Goutte: Lucia Sanchez Saornil - poétesse, anarchiste et féministe . Editions du Monde Libertaire, Paris 2011.
  • Es sólo un minuto , in: Lucía Sanchez Saornil, Horas de Revolutión , Barcelona (Publicación de Mujeres Libres) 1937.
  • Martin Baxmeyer: Now the moon has fallen at my feet - the life and work of the anarchist feminist poet and activist Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895–1970) .
  • Lucía Sánchez Saornil: Poesía , ed. and introduced by Rosa María Martín Casamitjana, Valencia 1996.

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personal data
SURNAME Sánchez Saornil, Lucía
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer, feminist and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1970
Place of death Valencia