Sidney Franklin (torero)
Sidney Franklin (born July 11, 1903 in New York City as Sidney Frumkin , † April 26, 1976 ibid) was an American torero who celebrated success in Latin America and Spain .
Life
Franklin grew up as the fifth of nine children Russian - Jewish immigrants in the district of Flatbush in Brooklyn on. The family was Orthodox, the father worked as a police officer. Sidney attended a commercial high school ( commercial high school ) before settling at the Columbia University enrolled, where he studied applied arts. He then opened a shop for screen-printed posters.
After a falling out with his father, he decided in June 1922 to go to Mexico to study Mayan history . In Veracruz he initially ran a poster business again. When he saw his first bullfight , he was so fascinated that he wanted to become a bullfighter himself. The American's request met with great skepticism among locals.
Franklin had his first fight on September 23, 1923 in Mexico City . He was carried out of the arena wounded, but returned bandaged and eventually killed the bull. That was the beginning of a career in which he would become an admired torero who appeared in many bullring around the world.
In 1929 Franklin went to Spain and was the first American ever to take part in a corrida. Already in his first fight in Seville he impressed the audience, but it took more than fifteen years until he finally prevailed among the Spanish audience and was celebrated as a matador. In the meantime, he also fought in Mexico, Colombia , Panama and Portugal .
In the early 1930s, Franklin met and became friends with the writer Ernest Hemingway , a great admirer of bullfighting. In Death in the Afternoon , Hemingway described Franklin as one of the most talented toreros in Spain in 1932. The relationship between the two later cooled down because Franklin supported Francisco Franco's nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War . Also in 1932, Franklin had an appearance on the side of Eddie Cantor in the American comedy The Kid from Spain , which is set in a bullfighting environment.
Franklin was repeatedly seriously injured during his bullfighting career. In 1930, for example, the horn of a dying bull caught him and pierced his abdomen. He then had to undergo several operations.
After finishing his career as a torero, Franklin returned to the United States. In 1952 he published his autobiography under the title Bullfighter from Brooklyn , a description of his life that was embellished in many ways. He died forgotten in a nursing home in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1976 at the age of 72 .
Fonts
- Bullfighter from Brooklyn. An Autobiography of Sidney Franklin. Prentice Hall, New York 1952.
literature
- Benjamin Ivry: 'Ai No Corrida'. Sidney Franklin, the Brooklyn Bullfighter. Out: Forward . February 26, 2010. Franklin Biography Review by Bart Paul.
- Bart Paul: Double-Edged Sword. The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln et al. a. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8032-1129-2 .
- Harold U. Ribalow: Sidney Franklin. Bullfighter from Flatbush. In: Ders .: The Jew in American Sports. Bloch, New York 1948, pp. 375-381.
- Elli Well-trained: Franklin, Sidney. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd edition. Macmillan, Detroit et al. a. 2007. Volume 12, p. 216.
Web links
- Sidney Franklin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franklin, Sidney |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frumkin, Sidney (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American torero |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1976 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York, USA |