Paul van Ostaijen
Paul van Ostaijen (born February 22, 1896 in Antwerp , † March 18, 1928 in Miavoye-Anthée) was a Belgian poet and grotesque writer .
Van Ostaijen's modernist work bears witness to an idiosyncratic and multifaceted expressionism , influenced by Dadaism and early surrealism .
Paul van Ostaijen was a staunch Flemish nationalist and activist in the Flamingant movement, whose goal was the emancipation of the Flemish people from the Walloon domination. After the First World War he had to flee to Berlin for a short time , where he met artists and writers of Dadaism and Expressionism. He fell into a deep mental crisis.
After Belgium returned, he opened in Brussels an art gallery. It was there that the signs of his tuberculosis disease first became visible and he died of the consequences of this disease in the sanatorium of Miavoye-Anthée in the Ardennes . He is buried in the Schoonselhof cemetery in Antwerp.
His so-called 'pure poems' ('zuivere lyriek') were published posthumously under the title Nachgelassene Gedichte .
bibliography
- Music Hall (1916) (collection of poems, decadentism)
- Het Sienjaal (1918) (collection of poems, humanistic expressionism)
- Bezette Stad (1921) (collection of poems, typographic expressionism)
- Feesten van Angst en Pijn (written 1921, published posthumously) (collection of poems, idem)
- De trust der vaderlandsliefde (1925, grotesques)
- Het bordeel van Ika Loch (1926, grotesques)
- Gebruiksaanwijzing der lyriek (poetological lecture, 1926)
- Nagelaten poems (1928) (collection of poems, organic expressionism)
- De bende van de stronk (1932, grotesques)
Works in German translation
- Grotesken Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1967 (Edition Suhrkamp es 202).
- Poems from Belgium and the Netherlands . Edited by Hans Joachim Schädlich . Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt 1977.
- Occupied city . Translated and edited by Hansjürgen Bulkowski . Munich: Edition text + criticism 1991.
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The bankrupt jazz . (Silent film script from 1920) Translated from the Dutch by Ida Rook and with an afterword by Hansjürgen Bulkowski. Berlin: Friedenauer Presse 1996. ISBN 3-921592-97-6
- The Dadaist script "De Jazz van het Bankroet" was filmed in 2006 by Leo van Maaren (director) and Frank Herrebout (producer) (40 minutes, www.roxymovies.nl) and performed on November 5, 2006 at JazzFest Berlin .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul van Ostaijen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sonja AJ Neef: Calligrams. On the mediality of a font. Based on Paul van Ostaijens "De feesten van angst en pijn". Amsterdam: ASCA Press 2000
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ostaijen, Paul van |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1896 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1928 |
Place of death | Miavoye-Anthée |