Miquel Martí i Pol

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Miquel Martí i Pol (born March 19, 1929 in Roda de Ter , Osona ; died November 11, 2003 in Vic ) was a Spanish poet in the Catalan language .

Plate with the signature Miquel Martí i Pols at the foot of the Monument al llibre (German: Monument for the Book) in Barcelona
The monument al llibre with signature plates

Life

Miquel Martí i Pol grew up in Roda de Ter, a village in the province of Barcelona . He came from a simple family, attended the Spanish-language elementary school and began working at the age of 14 in the Cala Tecla Sala textile factory, where his mother was also employed. A pulmonary tuberculosis forced the 19-year-olds for a year of bed rest, which allowed him to write and to read, above all. He later translated what he had read into Catalan. His first volume of poetry Paraules al vent was awarded the “Ossa Menor” literary prize in 1954. In the 1970s, Nova Cançó songwriters such as Maria del Mar Bonet , Ramon Muntaner , Lluís Llach , Celdoni Fonoll and Rafael Subirachs set his poems to music and ensured his popularity.

He became a member of the Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya (PSUC), which had to operate underground during the Franco dictatorship .

In the early 1970s he contracted multiple sclerosis , which later prevented him from speaking, so that he could only communicate with rudimentary articulation and an electric typewriter. In 1977 a democratic form of government was restored in Spain. At a "Semana Popular" in Osona in 1978 , his political commitment was recognized by artists such as Antoni Tàpies , Vicent Andrés Estellés , Pere Quart , Joan Brossa , Joan Vinyoli , Ramon Puyol and Xavier Bru de Sala .

He has translated works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Simone de Beauvoir , Guillaume Apollinaire , Gustave Flaubert , Emile Zola , Jean Racine , Joris-Karl Huysmans and Roland Barthes into Catalan.

In 1990 he wrote the Parlavà suite in the house of the musician Lluís Llach , from which Llach and the German actress Hanna Schygulla performed for the Diada de Sant Jordi 2010 in the Berlin Kulturbrauerei .

The book of loneliness was written between 1995 and 1997 and was dedicated to the professional footballer from Barça , Pep Guardiola and his wife Cristina Serra. Both cultivated “a poetic friendship” with the poet and visited him in Roda de Ter. Guardiola has occasionally read Martí's poems in public. Guardiola referred to the fact that he had also done this as a coach at FC Barcelona in front of his team at a reading in the Literaturhaus Munich in June 2015 in the field of modern fairy tales.

Stop at Center Miquel Martí i Pol ( Sant Joan Despí )

A poetry prize “Premio de Poesía Miquel Martí i Pol” was named after him. Schools and streets in Catalonia bear his name.

Awards (selection)

  • Creu de Sant Jordi Prize (1983)
  • Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (1991)
  • Premi Nacional de Literatura (1998)
  • Medalla d'Or de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1999)

Works (selection)

  • Llibre d'absències & Els bells camins - Book of Absence & The Beautiful Paths . Bilingual. Translated from the Catalan by Juana & Tobias Burghardt. Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2016
  • La fàbrica . Bilingual. From the Catalan by Johannes Hösle. Maro-Verlag, Augsburg 2014
  • Suite de Parlavà - Parlavà suite followed by Somebody is waiting & Book of Solitude . Bilingual. Translated from the Catalan by Juana & Tobias Burghardt. Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2012
  • Estimada Marta & Haikús en temps de guerra - Dear Marta & Haikus in times of war . Bilingual. From the Catalan by Juana and Tobias Burghardt. Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2010
  • L'àmbit de tots els àmbits & Després de tot - The area of ​​all areas & after all . Bilingual. From the Catalan by Juana and Tobias Burghardt. With an afterword by Alberto Szpunberg. Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2007

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alberto Szpunberg: Miquel Martí i Pol ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Epilogue to The area of ​​all areas & After all , at Edition Delta @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.edition-delta.de
  2. ^ A b Karl Corino: In der Fabrik , 2014
  3. ↑ Miquel Martí i Pol ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Edition Delta @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.edition-delta.de
  4. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur , conclusion , June 30, 2015
  5. ↑ Centro Miquel Martí i Pol ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Ayuntamiento de Sant Joan Despí @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sjdespi.com
  6. ↑ Premio de Poesía "Miquel Martí i Pol" ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / premis-literaris.uab.cat
personal data
SURNAME Martí i Pol, Miquel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Roda de Ter , Osona
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2003
Place of death Vic