« the Owner of a printing press. Person a supporter of the Republic as manifested in letter to Galarza ». This tab contained in the document Centre of Historical Memory of Salamanca is one of the few documents that have come down to our days on the life of the printer and editor Zoila Ascasibar, that you don’t even know what year he died. It is clear that the authorities of franco’s guarded by a republican, but who was this woman born of the nothing, which led to a printing Betasus press for what happened to publications and publishers during the twenties and thirties?
he was Born in Elgeta (Gipuzkoa), he went to serve Madrid, and ended up in the house of Manuel Alma Montes, editor of the illustrated magazine Around the world, a kind of Very interesting from that period. The editor will soon die, and his printing house passed through several hands before being in charge of her Ascasibar, that kept it alive until the coup of 1936 that later became a civil war.
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The francoist repression ended with their independence and freedom, as with the rest of the women librepensadoras that were educated and educated, which formed part of the public opinion and applied a new look at the issues of the day.
In an announcement by the business, published in 1931, can be read: « Printing Zoila Ascasibar. Specialty books and magazines of great circulation. Equipped with machinery art to make all kinds of job printing and bookbinding ». Also found a news item in the same year, which unveils the fire of his premises, located in madrid’s calle de Martín de los Heros, 65, during the new year’s Eve. « An individual caused it and died in the attempt », accurate to THE COUNTRY Ángeles Ezama Gil, a professor in the Department of Spanish Philology of the University of Zaragoza.
Ezama was found by chance with the name of the printer, and started to investigate about it a little while ago. « I have much to investigate, much file work. The last news I have is from 1942, » says the specialist, who brings more than 15 years rescuing women and forgotten by the history of literature.
Just have theories about the life and work of Zoila Ascasibar, although the review of the literature that he published in his printing press, Ezama comes to the conclusion that put a lot of care « and in good taste », which negotiated with directors of magazines, that he edited a lot, that made the world by montera, and that must have a public life very intense.
And, despite all this, Ascasibar is an invisible woman to the story. The trail’s most notable she is currently a publishing company that bears his name in tribute. For four decades, she and others like her were silenced by the franco regime. It is a debt that has the story because, as pointed out by Ezama, « men will forgive the mediocrity more than women, that should be very well recognized to go to the books ».
it is Not the only forgotten. The Spanish woman of the late NINETEENTH century and the first third of the TWENTIETH century disappeared from the chronicles and the canons when Franco imposed his regime. The project of an independent woman who conquered their rights, defended their ideals, and that he participated in the intellectual life was repressed and put to the brink of extinction in the manuals of history.
From a couple of decades ago, a group of specialists working in the rescue of his memory. They want to return to these teachers, artists, writers, scientific, pedagogas, philosophers or journalists to the place in history they deserve. Form the research group of The Other Silver Age and until the next Friday organized a large international conference dedicated to the modern woman between 1900 and 1936.
Will to meet your projection and cultural heritage and revert to the sin which was committed by the historiography with them to leave them without facts, without events and without biographies. The experts are reluctant to give you for dead women to be essential in the modernisation of this country before franco.
