Nanni Balestrini

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Nanni Balestrini (born July 2, 1935 in Milan - † May 20, 2019 in Rome ) was an Italian writer and a radical political activist of Italian operaism .

life and work

Nanni Balestrini was editor of the magazine Il Verri , co-director of Alfabeta and was one of the group of Italian writers who published in the 1961 anthology I Novissimi . In the 1960s, this group expanded to the Gruppo 63 , whose publications Balestrini edited. From 1962 to 1972 he also worked as an editor at the Feltrinelli publishing house , cooperated with the Marsilio publishing house and published editions of the Cooperativa Scrittori .

In 1968 Balestrini co-founded the Potere operaio group , and in 1976 a supporter of Autonomia . In 1979 he was accused of membership in the guerrilla and fled to Paris and later to Germany.

Balestrini became known to a larger audience in the early 1970s through his first novel We want everything . In it he describes the fights and clashes in the FIAT car factory . The social movements of the time remained his theme in the years that followed. With the book Die Invisbaren , he set a literary monument to the "Generation of 1977" . On the one hand, the spirit of optimism of those years becomes clear, which was reflected in squatting, the founding of free radios and others, but at the same time he describes the repression on the part of the state on these movements. Other important works include I Furiosi , which is dedicated to AC Milan's football fan culture, and The Publisher , which relates to Giangiacomo Feltrinelli . His closeness to operaism is particularly evident in his book The Golden Horde , which he wrote together with Primo Moroni . Most recently he published the novel Sandokan , which is about the Camorra in Casal di Principe .

Works

German

  • 1971: We want everything (Vogliamo tutto) , German by Peter O. Chotjewitz . Trikont Verlag, Munich 1972; Publishing house Association A, Hamburg / Berlin 2003.
  • 1975: Verbal dances (Ballate distese) , German by Gerald Bisinger . Verlag Klaus Renner, Erlangen 1978.
  • 1980: Blackout , German by Andreas Löhrer. Klever Verlag, Vienna 2015.
  • 1987: The invisible ones (Gli invisibili) , German by Renate Heimbucher-Bengs. Weismann Verlag Munich 1988, Verlag Association A, Hamburg / Berlin 2001.
  • 1988: The golden horde (L'orda d'oro) , with Primo Moroni, German by Christel Fröhlich. Black Risse Publishing House, Berlin 1994.
  • 1989: The publisher (L'editore) , German by Christel Fröhlich and Andreas Löhrer. Publishing house Libertarian Association, Hamburg 1992.
  • 1994: I furiosi. Die Wütenden , German by Dario Azzellini , ID Verlag, Amsterdam 1995.
  • 1999: The great revolt (La grande rivolta) , German by Peter O. Chotjewitz, Renate Heimbucher-Bengs, Christel Fröhlich and Andreas Löhrer. Association A, Hamburg / Berlin 2008.
  • 2004: Sandokan. A story of the Camorra (Sandokan, storia di camorra) , German by Max Henninger. Publishing house Association A, Hamburg / Berlin 2006.
  • 2009: Tristano , German by Peter O. Chotjewitz, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • 2012: Carbonia (Carbonia - Eravamo tutti comunisti) , German from NN, Samizdat Verlag, Vienna 2013.

Anthologies

Nanni Balestrini: All at once. Text and portrait . Literary Colloquium Berlin 1991

About Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini. Landscapes of the Word. Edited by Thomas Atzert, Andreas Löhrer, Reinhard Sauer and Jürgen Schneider. Association A, Hamburg / Berlin 2015

Italian

poetry

  • Come si agisce , Feltrinelli, 1963.
  • Ma noi facciamone un'altra , Feltrinelli, 1966.
  • Poesie pratiche , antologia 1954–1969, Einaudi, 1976.
  • Le ballate della signorina Richmond , Coop. Scrittori, 1977.
  • Blackout , DeriveApprodi, 2009 [2001].
  • Ipocalisse , Scheiwiller, 1986.
  • Il ritorno della signorina Richmond , Becco giallo, 1987.
  • Osservazioni sul volo degli uccelli, poesie 1954-56 , Scheiwiller, 1988.
  • Il pubblico del labirinto , Scheiwiller, 1992.
  • Estremi rimedi , Manni, 1995.
  • Le avventure complete della signorina Richmond , Testo & Immagine, 1999.
  • Elettra , Luca Sossella, 2001.
  • Tutto in una volta, antologia 1954-2003 , Edizioni del Leone, 2003.
  • Sfinimondo , Bibliopolis, 2003.
  • Sconnessioni , Rome , Fermenti, 2008.
  • Blackout e altro , Rome , Deriveapprodi, 2009.
  • Lo sventramento della storia , Rome , Polìmata, 2009.

Novels

  • Tristano , DeriveApprodi, 2007 [1964].
  • Vogliamo tutto , DeriveApprodi, 2004 [1971].
  • La violenza illustrata , DeriveApprodi, 2001 [1976].
  • Gli invisibili , DeriveApprodi, 2005 [1987].
  • L'editore , DeriveApprodi, 2006 [1989].
  • I furiosi , DeriveApprodi, 2004 [1994].
  • Una mattina ci siam svegliati , Baldini & Castoldi, 1995.
  • La Grande Rivolta , Bompiani, 1999.
  • Sandokan, storia di camorra , Einaudi, 2004.

stories

  • Disposta l'autopsia dell'anarchico morto dopo i violenti scontri di Pisa in: Paola Staccioli, In ordine pubblico , Rome , 2002, pp. 25-31.

Miscellaneous

  • Gruppo 63, L'Antologia , (with Alfredo Giuliani), Testo & Immagine, 2002 [1964].
  • Gruppo 63. Il romanzo sperimentale , Feltrinelli, 1965.
  • L'Opera di Pechino , (with Letizia Paolozzi), Feltrinelli, 1966.
  • L'orda d'oro , (with Primo Moroni), Sugarco, 1988; Feltrinelli, 1997, 2003.
  • Parma 1922 , DeriveApprodi, 2002.

See also

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personal data
SURNAME Balestrini, Nanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and radical political activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH 20th May 2019
Place of death Rome