Pedro Sinzig

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Frei Pedro Sinzig (born January 29, 1876 in Linz am Rhein ; † December 8, 1952 in Düsseldorf ) was a Brazilian Franciscan , composer, writer and journalist of German origin.

Life

After joining the Franciscan order, Sinzig studied philosophy and theology in Harreveld near Lichtenvoorde (Netherlands). In 1893 he traveled to Brazil as a missionary and became a Brazilian citizen shortly before his ordination in Salvador da Bahia in 1898. In 1902 he founded the journal Cruzeiro do Sul in Lages, in 1910 the publishing house and printing company Centro da Boa Imprensa in Petrópolis, edited the magazine Vozes de Petrópolis from 1908 to 1920 and was the organizer of the first Congresso Nacional dos Jornalistas Católicos . In 1910, on a lecture tour through Germany, he presented Brazil as a land of intellectual and artistic possibilities. For the purpose of the Brazilian-German cultural exchange, Sinzig founded the company Pró-Arte . He was professor and director of the Escola de Música Sacra and published the magazine Música Sacra and the film journal A Tela . He was also a member of the Academia Brasileira de Música , with whose president Heitor Villa-Lobos he was friends.

In addition to numerous music reviews, Sinzig wrote around fifty novels, short stories, essays and translations, a music lexicon and biographies of Father Rogério Neuhaus and Fabiano de Cristo . In 1922 his memoirs Reminiscências de um Frade (German 1925: Mönch und Welt: Memories of a Rhenish Franciscan in Brazil , in the second edition under the title Buried alive? ) Appeared .

Sinzig appeared as a conductor and composed around 70 mainly church music works, including 14 masses, six litanies and four processional marches, the opera Frei Antônio on the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of São Paulo in 1954 and folkloric pieces.

Among the German-Brazilians , P. Sinzig warned against any rapprochement with National Socialism . As early as 1937, the German embassy in Rio de Janeiro reported to the Foreign Office that Father Sinzig was inciting against Hitler together with Jews. His book O Nazismo sem Máscara , published in Rio de Janeiro in 1938, caused a sensation . Fatos e Documentos (Nazism without a mask. Facts and documents), published under the pseudonym João Bauer Reis. Because Pedro Sinzig knew what he was risking. When the authorship was revealed, the Nazis responded with reprisals against his relatives in Germany. He was instrumental in founding the "Free Germany" movement in 1942 by German and Austrian opponents of the Nazis in Brazil.

P. Sinzig died in 1952 while on a trip to Germany.

Fonts

Literary works in German

  • The beautiful Jewess. Story from the time of the Electorate of Cologne . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1927
  • Storm on the Rhine. Stories from Linz in the Electorate of Cologne . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1930

Literary works in Portuguese

  • Não desanimar. Romance contemporaneo . Vozes, Petrópolis 1912.
  • Pela mão de uma menina . Vozes, Petrópolis 1913.
  • Violetas. Contos . Vozes, Petrópolis 1913.
  • O Zepelim eo cão de casa . Vozes, Petrópolis n.d.
  • De automóvel para o céu , Guaira, Curitiba 1943.

Writings on literature

  • A Caricatura na Imprensa Brasileira . Vozes, Petrópolis 1911.
  • Através dos Romances . Vozes, Petrópolis 1915.
  • Pelo Brasil e pela Fé. Guia na imprensa, literatura e arte religiosa . Centro da Boa Imprensa, Petrópolis 1922.
  • Os nossos Escritores . Vozes, Petrópolis n.d.

Writings on society, politics and religion

  • From the diary of Father Petrus Sinzig OFM during his social outreach in Cansanção . In: Brazil Dialog, vol. 2002, issue 3/4, pp. 29–32. (via Canudos )
  • Guerra !!! Quadro da actualidade . Vozes, Petrópolis 1915.
  • Santo Antonio do Rio de Janeiro. Historia de seu convento e catalogo da exposição antoniana do 7. centenario da morte do santo . Rio de Janeiro 1931.
  • Tempestades. O Bolchevismo por dentro . Artes Graphicas, Rio de Janeiro 1931.
  • O Nazismo sem Máscara. Fatos e Documentos . LAJosephson, Rio de Janeiro 1938.
  • O mês de Maria ea Folhinha . Civilização Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro 1942.
  • Numerous contributions to the yearbook of the Southern Brazilian Franciscan Province of the Immaculate Conception, which he has published since 1910 . Vozes, Petrópolis.

Musicological contributions

  • Dicionário Musical. Pelo mundo do som . Kosmos Editora, Rio de Janeiro 1947.
  • Numerous articles in the magazine Música Sacra, which he has published since 1941 .

Biographical and autobiographical works

  • P. Rogerius Neuhaus. A German Franciscan in Brazil 1863-1934 . Butzon & Bercker. Kevelaer 1935.
  • Reminiscências de um Frade . Vozes, Petrópolis 1917.
    • German translation: Buried alive? Memories . Translated by Maria Kahle. Herder, Freiburg 1922.
    • New edition under the title: Monk and World. Memories of a Rhenish Franciscan in Brazil . Herder, Freiburg 1925.

bibliography

  • Universidade São Francisco (Bragança Paulista): Coleção Frei Pedro Sinzig, 2012 (6 pages). It also includes editions of the scores of his compositions.

Compositions

  • Benedicite
  • Sursum Corda
  • Cecília
  • Cem Prelúdios para Órgão , also known as Laudes in Organo (Op. 27) .
  • Catecismo em Cânticos
  • Jóia do Cantochão
  • Paixão segundo São João (St. John Passion)
  • Natal! Natal! (Oratorio, text by Jónatas Serrano)
  • Sao Francisco Serafico
  • Maria Santíssima
  • Cantata Santa Cecília
  • Cancioneiro de Modinhas Populares
  • Modinhas Brasileiras
  • Minha Terra
  • Volley Brasil
  • Estrelas e Flores
  • O Brasil Cantando

literature

  • Leonila Linhares Beuttenmüller: Frei Pedro Sinzig OFM Vozes, Petrópolis 1955.
  • Christiane Alms-Hammerstein: Petrus Sinzig (1876-1952): A Rhenish Franciscan in Brazil . In: Christiane Alms-Hammerstein, Ingrid von der Dollen (ed.): People in their time. Former students of the Linz grammar school . KAT-Verlag, Bad Honnef 2006. ISBN 3-9803567-5-2 . Pp. 109-125.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Karl Heinrich Oberacker: The German contribution to building the Brazilian nation . Herder, São Paulo 1955. In it the paragraph “Petrus Sinzig (1876-1952)”, p. 404.
  2. ^ Karl Heinrich Oberacker: The German contribution to building the Brazilian nation . Herder, São Paulo 1955. p. 404.
  3. ^ Friedrich Muckermann: In the struggle between two epochs. Life memories . Mainz 1973, pp. 611 and 616.
  4. ↑ Patrik von zur Mühlen: Escape destination Latin America. German emigration 1933-1945. Political activities and socio-cultural integration . Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1988. ISBN 3-87831-472-8 . P. 194.
  5. ^ Sophia A. Lyra: São Francisco de Assis eo Brasil . Livraría José Olympio Editora, Rio de Janeiro 1978. p. 238.
  6. ↑ Patrik von zur Mühlen: Escape destination Latin America. German emigration 1933-1945. Political activities and socio-cultural integration . Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1988. ISBN 3-87831-472-8 . P. 205.
  7. ^ Karl Heinrich Oberacker: The German contribution to building the Brazilian nation . Herder, São Paulo 1955. p. 404.
  8. ↑ Frei Pedro Sinzig - Fundador  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Academia Brasileira de Música (Portuguese), accessed on September 27, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.abmusica.org.br  
  9. ↑ Bibliography of the writings of Pedro Sinzig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Portuguese; PDF; 189 kB), accessed on September 27, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webp.usf.edu.br  

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personal data
SURNAME Sinzig, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer, journalist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1952
Place of death Dusseldorf