Scipio Slataper
Scipio Slataper (born July 14, 1888 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary , † December 3, 1915 in Podgora near Gorizia ) was an Italian writer. One of his most famous works is Mein Karst .
Life
Scipio Slataper was born to a Slovenian father and an Italian mother. After his school education in Trieste, Slataper studied philology in Florence . In Florence he worked for the newspaper La Voce , published by Giuseppe Prezzolini . Slataper, who was a supporter of the Italian unity movement ( Irredenta ) and called for Trieste to be linked to Italy, wrote several articles for the newspaper, including five letters in which he was critical of the Trieste society in the 20th century.
Slataper kept in close contact with his hometown throughout his life and was in lively exchange with other Trieste writers and poets such as Umberto Saba , Giani Stuparich and his wife Elody Oblath .
In 1910, after the suicide of his girlfriend, Anna Pulitzer, he retired to the village of Ocizla in the Slovenian municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina and began his work My Karst , which was published in Florence in 1912 and was to be his only book publication.
In the same year of publication, Slataper moved to Hamburg to teach Italian at the University of Hamburg . When Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in 1915 , Slataper returned to Italy and volunteered for Italian military service. Slataper fell on December 3, 1915 at the age of 27 in the Fourth Isonzo Battle near Gorizia .
Benjamin Crémieux translated Mein Karst into French in 1921, which made Slataper famous in Europe in the 1920s.
Works
- Il Mio Carso . 1912
- My karst. Translation: Ilse Pollack, Wieser, Klagenfurt 2000, ISBN 3-85129-313-4 (lyrical autobiography, 1912).
literature
- Sandra Arosio: Scrittori di frontiera. Scipio Slataper, Giani e Carlo Stuparich . Guerini Scientifica, Milan 1996, ISBN 88-8107-047-2 .
- Giuseppe A. Camerino: La persuasione ei simboli. Michelstaedter e Slataper . Liguori, Naples 2005, ISBN 88-207-3754-X (Critica e letteratura; 57).
- Nils Kohlmann: Trieste. Herald of modernity. On the existential content of the works of Italo Svevo Umberto Saba and Scipio Slataper . VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-639-04619-9 .
- Elena Coda: Scipio Slataper . Palumbo, Palermo 2007, ISBN 978-88-601-7030-9 (La scrittura e l'interpretazione; 21).
- Primus-Heinz Kucher: Slataper Scipio. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 349.
- Alberto Piazza: Scipio Slataper, lettore ad Amburgo . In: Daniela Giovanardi, Harro Stammerjohann (Ed.): I Lettori d'italiano in Germania. Convegno di Weimar, April 27-29, 1995 . Narr-Verlag, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-8233-5262-8 , p. 109ff.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slataper, Scipio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scipioni, Publio (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1915 |
| Place of death | Podgora near Gorizia |