The General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) The historical memory of its partners who were retaliated for political reasons during Franco, the civil war and previous Republic is honored in a new exhibition.
In 2021, the entity undertook an investigation that has now crystallized in a book and an exhibition, ‘Angels and demons’, which can be visited from March 11 to April 22 at the Madrid headquarters of SGAE.
The exhibition, which has been curated by the director of the Documentation and Archive Center (CEDOA) and co -author of the book ‘Angels and demons. II Republic, Civil War and postwar in the SGAE ‘, María Luz González Peña, and the head of the Department of Complementary Activities of SGAE, Maribel Sausor, brings together more than two hundred pieces related to authors pursued by her ideas and her works, such as the brothers Joaquín and Serafín Álvarez Quintero, Carlos Arniches, Miguel de Molina, Federico García Lorca, María disturbance, Adela Anaya, Pedro Muñoz Seca or Dramaturg, Manuel Azaña, President of the Republic from 1936 to 1939.
The objects come from private collections and CEDOA, as well as from the different collaborating institutions: Mingote Foundation, Manuel de Falla Archive, National Theater Museum, Jacinto and Innocent Guerrero Foundation, Miguel de Molina Foundation, Mediterranean Foundation, Federico García Lorca Center, Pablo Iglesias Foundation and Zarzuela Theater.
Thus, the exhibition has chosen as an image a vignette, published in 1986 in the ABC newspaper, in which the Catalan cartoonist Antonio Mingote portrays Lorca and Muñoz Seca, and in which he reads: “We still call us red fagot to one and fascist Astracansco to the other. But they do it without resentment, just to justify themselves for having killed us.”
“We are aware that many names are missing because no information about all in the archives has been found, but, at least, we have tried to know what happened with those members and partners of SGAE, one or another side, reprisals and, in some way, to pay off a pending account that the entity had with them,” González Peña said in a state Carratalá Ríos.
This tour of the SGAE memory will allow the exhibition attendees to know not only archive documents referring to the persecution and purification of many of the entity’s members, but also photographs, costume pieces or personal objects.