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Ulli Beier (30 July 1922 – 3 April 2011) was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea. His wife Georgina Beier[1] had an instrumental role in simultaneously stimulating the visual arts in both Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
Beier was born in Glowitz, Germany, in July 1922. His father was a medical doctor and an appreciator of art and raised his son to embrace the arts. After the Nazi party’ rise to power, the Beiers, who are non-practicing Jews, left for Palestine. In Palestine, while his family were briefly detained as enemy aliens by the British authorities, Ulli Beier was able to earn a BA as an external student from the University of London. However, he later moved to London to earn a degree in Phonetics. A few years later, after his first marriage to the Austrian artist Susanne Wenger, he was given a faculty position at the University of Ibadan to teach Phonetics.
Published works
– Voices of Independence: New Black Writing from Papua New Guinea, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980. 251 pp.s
– Editor: The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 1999.
– Black Orpheus: An Anthology of New African and Afro-American Stories, 1965.
– Thirty Years of Oshogbo Art, Iwalewa House, Bayreuth, 1991.
– Neue Kunst in Afrika: das Buch zur Austellung, Reimer, Berlin, 1980 (Contemporary Art in Africa, Pall Mall Press, London, 1968).
– A Year of Sacred Festivals in One Yoruba Town, Nigeria Magazine, Marina, Lagos, Nigeria, 1959.
Ulli Beier
Ecrivain/ne, Poète
Allemagne
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Ulli Beier (30 July 1922 – 3 April 2011) was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea. His wife Georgina Beier[1] had an instrumental role in simultaneously stimulating the visual arts in both Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
Beier was born in Glowitz, Germany, in July 1922. His father was a medical doctor and an appreciator of art and raised his son to embrace the arts. After the Nazi party’ rise to power, the Beiers, who are non-practicing Jews, left for Palestine. In Palestine, while his family were briefly detained as enemy aliens by the British authorities, Ulli Beier was able to earn a BA as an external student from the University of London. However, he later moved to London to earn a degree in Phonetics. A few years later, after his first marriage to the Austrian artist Susanne Wenger, he was given a faculty position at the University of Ibadan to teach Phonetics.
Published works
– Voices of Independence: New Black Writing from Papua New Guinea, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980. 251 pp.s
– Editor: The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 1999.
– Black Orpheus: An Anthology of New African and Afro-American Stories, 1965.
– Thirty Years of Oshogbo Art, Iwalewa House, Bayreuth, 1991.
– Neue Kunst in Afrika: das Buch zur Austellung, Reimer, Berlin, 1980 (Contemporary Art in Africa, Pall Mall Press, London, 1968).
– A Year of Sacred Festivals in One Yoruba Town, Nigeria Magazine, Marina, Lagos, Nigeria, 1959.
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