The Vindicator

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Osvaldo Bayer

Argentinian anarchist, writer, historian.


Osvaldo Bayer was born in Santa Fi in 1927. He studied History in the 
University of Hamburg from 1952 to 1956. Returned to Argentina, dedicating 
himself to the media, to the historical investigation & cinematographic 
scripts. He worked in the daily Graphical News, the patagsnico Esquel & 
Bugler, of which he was writing secretary, & in diverse magazines. He was 
Secretary General of the Union of Press from 1959 to 1962. His book the 
Rebellious Patagonia & the film of the same name were persecuted & had to 
leave the country in 1975. Bayer lived in exile, in Berlin, until his 
return to Buenos Aires, in 1983.
At the moment Osvaldo Bayer collaborates on Pagina/12 & has published the 
following books: Severino Di Giovanni, the idealist of violencia(1970); The 
Rebellious Patagonia (the avengers of the tragic Patagonia, 1972-76 four 
volumes); The expropiating anarchists (1974); Radowitzky, martyr or 
assassin? (1974); The Rosales, an Argentine tragedy (1974); Exile (1984, in 
collaboration with Juan Gelman). The Maffia was the scriptwriter of films 
(1972); The Rebellious Patagonia (1974); Everything is absence (1983); 
Group of forty: exile and return (1984); Juan, as if nothing had happened 
(1986); The friend (1989); America Love (1989); Elizabeth (1990); The 
vindicador (1991) & Military Pantheon (1992); last the six in coproduction 
with Germany.