Osvaldo Bayer

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Osvaldo Bayer (born February 18, 1927 in Santa Fe , Argentina , † December 24, 2018 in Buenos Aires , Argentina) was an Argentine writer , historian , journalist , publicist and human rights activist .

Life

Osvaldo Bayer came from a family who emigrated to Argentina from Altenburg in Tyrol. His father changed the Tyrolean spelling of the name “Payr” to “Bayer” in Argentina.

Bayer studied philosophy and history in Buenos Aires and from 1952 in Hamburg . He also wrote for Argentine magazines on the side.

In 1956 Bayer returned to Buenos Aires; he worked for the newspaper Noticias Gráficas . On a reporting trip to Patagonia , he saw the exploitation of the Mapuche and Chilean farm workers. So he came across one of his life issues. In his newspaper he made the Patagonian situation public. He was then expelled from Chubut Province .

From 1958 to 1973 Bayer worked for the Clarín newspaper . He was the editorial secretary, then head of the “Politics and Military Affairs” section, and finally the feature section. He was also general secretary of the Argentine Journalists' Union for three years. He later published Imagen magazine.

In addition to his journalistic work, Bayer devoted himself to “researching the most forgotten and punished in human history”. In his book La Patagonia rebelde he described the oppression, the strike and the uprising of the farm workers in Patagonia during the years 1920 to 1922, which the military bloodily suppressed and executed around 1,500 workers. When he published the first volumes of La Patagonia rebelde in 1972 and 1974 , he was threatened with death by the Alianza Anticomunista Argentina . Many of his friends, including the writer Rodolfo Walsh , were abducted and murdered . Bayer managed to escape with the help of the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; the cultural attaché and his wife smuggled him out of the country at the risk of their own lives.

From 1976 to 1983, during the military dictatorship in Argentina , he lived in exile in the Federal Republic of Germany. Bayer translated works by Goethe , Franz Kafka , Bertolt Brecht , Karl Jaspers and others. Meanwhile, several of his books, including La Patagonia rebelde , were banned by the military dictatorship in his home country and burned at their behest. The film La Patagonia rebelde was also banned for many years.

When the end of the military dictatorship was in sight, a week before its fall, Bayer returned to Argentina. He has since written for Página / 12 . He was also Professor of Human Rights at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires until 2006 . He visited Germany regularly and was a. a. Lecturer at the German Foundation for Development Policy in Bad Honnef .

Bayer has been committed to helping the indigenous people of Patagonia for many years. On this subject he produced the film Awka Liwen (in the Mapuche language: “Rebellious Awakening”) together with Mariano Aiello and Kristina Hille , which was presented in Buenos Aires in 2010. On the initiative of Senator Eduardo Menem, the Argentine parliament declared him “unpatriotic” and “ persona non grata ” because he had proposed a common economic area from both parts of Patagonia (Argentine and Chilean Patagonia).

Honors

  • Honorary citizen of Buenos Aires, on the initiative of Aníbal Ibarra
  • Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (2003) and other Argentine universities, namely the Universities del Comahue, de la Patagonia Austral, del Centro Bonaerense (Tandil-Olavarría), the University Nacional de San Luis, the University of Salta and the University of Nacional de Córdoba .
  • 1st prize of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo
  • Azucena Villaflor Prize for Human Rights from the Argentine President (2007)
  • Grand Prize of Honor from the Argentine Writers' Association Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (2008)
  • The literary café of the Universidad Popular in Madres de Plaza de Mayo bears the name Osvaldo Bayer .

family

Osvaldo Bayer was married to Marlies Joos (1929–2015) since 1952 and they have four children.

Fonts

German
  • Author collective 79 (ed.): The disappeared children of Argentina. A collection of materials . With contributions by Osvaldo Bayer and Urs M. Fiechtner (= Writings for Amnesty International, Vol. 6). AS-Verlag, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-88773-017-8 .
  • as editor, together with Adolfo Perez Esquivel : Argentina. Ten years of democracy . Butterfly publishing house, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-926369-68-X .
  • My picture of Germany . In: Gert Eisenbürger (Ed.): Paths of life. 15 biographies between Europe and Latin America . Verlag Libertäre Assoziation, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-922611-48-6 , pp. 63-74.
  • "The dogs to eat". The farm workers' strike in Patagonia . In: Holger Marcks, Matthias Seiffert (Hrsg.): The big strikes. Episodes from the class struggle . Unrast Verlag , Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-473-1 , pp. 48-52.
  • Uprising in Patagonia . Nevertheless Verlag , Frankfurt am Main / Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-931786-44-1 (Nevertheless) and ISBN 978-3-86569-910-7 (Alibri).
Spanish
  • Severino Di Giovanni , the idealista de la violencia . Ensayo. Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires 1970.
  • La Patagonia rebelde . Ensayo.
    • Vol. 1 and 2. Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires 1972.
    • Vol. 3. Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires 1974.
    • Vol. 4. Berlin 1975.
    • La Patagonia rebelde (Edición Definiva) . Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires 2008.
  • Los anarquistas expropiadores y otros ensayos . Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires 1975.
  • Exilio . Ensayo. Con Juan Gelman . Editorial Legasa, Buenos Aires 1984.
  • Fútbol Argentina . Ensayo. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1990.
  • Rebeldía y esperanza . Ensayo. Grupo Editorial Zeta, Buenos Aires 1993.
  • Ulises Gorini: A contrapelo. Conversaciones con Osvaldo Bayer . Editorial Desde la gente. Buenos Aires 1999.
  • En camino al paraíso . Ensayo. Editorial Vergara, Buenos Aires 1999.
  • Rainer y Minou . Novela. Editorial Planeta, Buenos Aires 2001.
  • Obras completas . Page 12, Buenos Aires 2009.

Scripts

  • La Patagonia rebelde , 1974 (awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival).
  • Asylum, documentary film; Short film 1984; Director: Friedrich Klütsch (screenplay with Cengiz Dogu and Urs M. Fiechtner ) won at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen the price of the German Film Critics.
  • El vindicador , 1989 (about the German assassin Kurt Gustav Wilckens with Frieder Wagner )
  • Todo es ausencia , 1984.
  • Fútbol Argentina , 1990.
  • Osvaldo Bayer, Frieder Wagner : ... that you were silent for two days under torture. Elisabeth Käsemann , a German fate , 1991. Contained on the enclosed DVD in the book That you are two days in silence under torture! Elisabeth Käsemann, Klaus Zieschank, the dictatorship in Argentina and the corpses in the basement of the Foreign Office . Library of Resistance, Volume 8, (Ed .: W. Baer, ​​KH. Dellwo), Laika Verlag, Hamburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-942281-77-5 .
  • Awka Liwen - Rebelde Amanecer . Film & talk with Osvaldo Bayer. Macanudo Films, Buenos Aires 2010. Directed by Osvaldo Bayer, Mariano Aiello, Kristina Hille. 77 minutes.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Osvaldo Bayer: Chronicler with his own opinion . In: Gert Eisenbürger (Ed.): Paths of life. 15 biographies between Europe and Latin America . Verlag Libertäre Assoziation, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-922611-48-6 , pp. 55-62.
  • Yolanda Prieto, Sabine Keller: Two continents, one life. / Dos continentes, una vida. Argentinian artists and intellectuals in Europe (bilingual German / Spanish). Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-86099-677-5 ; with an interview with Osvaldo Bayer, pp. 94-101.
  • Pantéon militar - crusade against subversion. Argentina 1976 to 1983 . Film DVD with extensive accompanying material as a booklet. The accompanying book contains: Osvaldo Bayer: 30 years later. On the consequences of the military dictatorship in Argentina. (= Library of Resistance, Vol. 9). Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-942281-78-2 , pp. 11-22.

Films about Osvaldo Bayer

  • Cuarentena - exile and return . ZDF 1983.
  • Los cuentos del timonel (about Osvaldo Bayer and his years in Germany). Director: Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Argentina 2001.
  • Osvaldo Bayer: La livertá . Director: Gustavo Gzain. Germany / Argentina 2014.
  • Mi viejo rebelde . Director: Ana Bayer. Germany / Argentina 2018.

Web links

Commons : Osvaldo Bayer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Osvaldo Bayer: Chronicler with his own opinion . In: Gert Eisenbürger (Ed.): Paths of life. 15 biographies between Europe and Latin America . Libertarian Association, Hamburg 1995, p. 55.
  2. ↑ a b c Osvaldo Bayer: Chronicler with his own opinion . In: Gert Eisenbürger (Ed.): Paths of life. 15 biographies between Europe and Latin America . Publishing house Libertäre Association, Hamburg 1995, p. 56.
  3. ↑ a b Sven Schaller: Interview with Osvaldo Bayer, Argentine historian and writer , September 2011, website of “Quetzal. Leipzig Latin America Association (eV) ”, accessed on March 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Osvaldo Bayer: Chronicler with his own opinion . In: Gert Eisenbürger (Ed.): Paths of life. 15 biographies between Europe and Latin America . Verlag Libertäre Association, Hamburg 1995, p. 57.
  5. ↑ Osvaldo Bayer: Chronicler with his own opinion . In: Gert Eisenbürger (Ed.): Paths of life. 15 biographies between Europe and Latin America . Verlag Libertäre Association, Hamburg 1995, p. 58.
  6. ↑ a b Osvaldo Bayer: Después de anoche, sólo me queda Marlene . In: Página / 12, June 4, 2007.
  7. ↑ Asylum. Documentary; Short film BRD 1984 , German Film and Media Assessment (FBW)
  8. ↑ Kurt Gustav Wilckens
  9. ↑ Gustavo Gzain: Osvaldo Bayer: La livertá. November 1, 2014, accessed April 20, 2017 .
  10. ^ BABYLON in Berlin - Mi viejo rebelde [My old rebel dad]. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bayer, Osvaldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine journalist, writer, historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Fe
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2018
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina