Nikola Wapzarow

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Wapzarow as a seaman at the Naval Academy in Varna.

Nikola Jonkow Wapzarow ( Bulgarian Никола Йонков Вапцаров , born December 7, 1909 in Bansko , † July 23, 1942 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian poet. He was a member of the " Bulgarian Communist Party " ( Bulgarian "Българска комунистическа партия") before it was legalized and institutionalized as a party. His father, Jonko Wapzarow , was a Bulgarian freedom fighter, politician and leading figure of the "Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee" ( Bulgarian "Български македоно-одрински революционни комитететететете).

Life

Wapzarow with his father (right).
Elena, the mother of Vapzarow.

Wapzarow attended high school in Razlog from 1924 to 1926 , then the Naval Academy in Varna , which has been named after him since 1949, where he studied marine engineering. He first completed his internship on the ship "Drazki" and visited the port cities of Istanbul , Famagusta , Alexandria , Beirut , Port Said and Haifa in April 1935 with the ship " Burgas " .

Wapzarow's diploma from the Varna Naval Academy.

Wapzarow later worked in the "Bulgarian Forest Industry" factory in Kotscherinowo ( Bulgarian Кочериново), first as a stoker and then as a mechanic. There he was elected chairman of the union and vehemently defended workers' rights. In his spare time he organized, wrote and played roles in amateur theater. On August 28, 1932 Vapzarow met his future wife, Boyka Dimitrova ( Bulgarian Бойка Димитрова ), the wedding took place on February 11, 1934 in Kocherinovo.

He was laid off in 1936 after an accident in the factory, leaving the young family without a livelihood and moving to Sofia. The first child, son Yonko, was born on January 4, 1936, but he only fell ill after seven months and died of malnutrition. For a long time Vapzarow could not find a job in Sofia, but his wife Bojka was employed by a bank. From 1936 to 1938, he first worked as a technician in the factory of the brothers Bugartschewi ( Bulgarian Бугарчеви ), then as a heater in the Bulgarian State Railways ( Bulgarian Български държавни железници ), and by September 1940 in the rendering plant of the city of Sofia. He then found work at a test station for a month before quitting and becoming unemployed. The family's second son was born prematurely in 1941 and lived only a few hours.

Wapzarow became a member of the Macedonian literary circle in Sofia in 1938, but over time changed his views so much that the weekly newspaper "Literaturkritik", which he curated, finally welcomed the defeat of Yugoslavia by the German armed forces in its April 20, 1941 edition , and congratulated the Bulgarian people on the occasion of the unification when most of Macedonia was annexed to the Kingdom of Bulgaria in April 1941 . In the context of the resulting nationwide euphoria , the Macedonian literary circle dissolved in 1941.

Wapzarow always wrote only in Bulgarian, in his report from 1938 the topic about the draft of a Macedonian literary language was completely missing, and he always referred to himself as Bulgarian according to the police protocol of 1940.

In 1940 Wapzarow collected signatures in the Pirin Mountains for the so-called Sobolev campaign . He was brought to justice and interned in Godetsch . After his release in 1942, he organized resistance campaigns against the German Wehrmacht . Then he was arrested by the Bulgarian police and confessed to being tortured. A pardon to Boris III. was rejected and Wapzarow was sentenced to death . He was executed by shooting that same day .

In the Antarctic, Vaptsarov Peak on Livingston Island is named in his honor.

Museum house Wapzarow.

Web links

Commons : Nikola Wapzarow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nikola Wapzarow: biographical information. Retrieved October 6, 2019 (Bulgarian).
  2. ↑ a b Maritza newspaper: Wapzarow with peace prize posthumously Вапцаров с посмъртна награда за мир . June 19, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 (Bulgarian).
  3. ↑ Rakopisno nasledstwo / Nikola Wapzarow; Sastaw. s predg. Boyka Vapzarowa; Podgotwili i teksta i komentara Bojka Vapzarowa, Magdalena Schischkowa; Otg. red. Stojko Boschkow, Sonja Baewa. - Sofija: BAN 1982. - 552 s. : 17 l .: faks., Portr. ( Bulgarian . Ръкописно наследство / Никола Вапцаров; Състав с предг Бойка Вапцарова; Подготвили и текста и коментара Бойка Вапцарова, Магдалена Шишкова; Отг ред Стойко Божков, Соня Баева - София: БАН 1982. - с 552: 17 л..... .: факс., портр. )
  4. ↑ newspaper 24 hours: 72 years after the shooting of Nikola Wapzarow 72 години от разстрела на Никола Вапцаров . July 23, 2014, accessed October 5, 2019 (Bulgarian).
personal data
SURNAME Wapzarow, Nikola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wapzarow, Nikola Jonkow (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bansko
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1942
Place of death Sofia