Publication: Biografía personal, profesional, intelectual y política del periodista José Ponce Bernal, (Huelva 1898-Madrid 1940)
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2017-03-03
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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El estudio de la vida y la obra de José Ponce Bernal desvela que fue un periodista destacado que participó activamente en la vida política y social de la España de su tiempo. Recuperar su legado y sacarle del anonimato son los objetivos básicos de la presente tesis doctoral. La calidad, hondura y originalidad de los temas que abordó en sus artículos periodísticos, junto al resto de su producción intelectual, constituyen razón más que sobrada para escribir su biografía. Las tarjetas postales que envió a su mujer, María, y a sus hijos, Felicidad, Helenio y Floreal, desde la prisión de Almería después de la guerra civil española despertaron el interés por indagar en su vida. Partimos de unos cuantos datos biográficos: fue un autodidacta, periodista y político, cuyo sueño era alcanzar su meta periodística, Madrid, y tener 12 hijos. Se cumplió en una mínima parte. La guerra lo sorprendió allí trabajando para Claridad, pero su familia quedó en Huelva y nunca más volvieron a encontrarse. Comenzamos la investigación al localizar los artículos en Claridad. Comprobamos así que realizó un trabajo de corresponsal de guerra en el frente sur entre agosto de 1936 y marzo de 1938. En Salamanca hallamos una carta que había escrito a un mando del Ejército Republicano ofreciéndose para ocupar un puesto en el Comisariado, además de otros documentos que lo situaban en Ciudad Real en 1938, su vinculación con una columna de la CNT y el expediente abierto por el Tribunal Especial para la Represión de la Masonería y el Comunismo cuando llevaba cuatro años muerto...
The study of the life and work of José Ponce Bernal reveals that he was a leading journalist who actively participated in the political and social life of the Spain of his time. Recovering his legacy and taking him out of his anonymity are the basic objectives of this doctoral thesis. The quality, depth and originality of the issues he addressed in his newspaper articles, together with his intellectual production, provide us with more than enough information to write his biography. The postcards he sent to his wife, María, and to his children, Felicidad, Helenio and Floreal from Almeria’s prison after the Spanish Civil War, awakened the interest in investigating his life. We start from few biographical details: he was a self-taught, journalist and politician whose dream was to reach his journalistic ambition, Madrid, and have 12 children which he fulfilled only in part. The civil war took him by surprise working for Claridad, but his family stayed in Huelva and they never met each other again. The investigation begins with the discovery of the Claridad articles. We found out that he worked as a war correspondent for the south band between August 1936 and March 1938. We found a letter he wrote in Salamanca to a republican army command offering himself to work in the Commissary, together with some other documents that placed him in Ciudad Real in 1938, his link to a CNT column and the special investigation carried out by the Masonry Special Tribunal and Communism Repression when he had already been dead for four years...
The study of the life and work of José Ponce Bernal reveals that he was a leading journalist who actively participated in the political and social life of the Spain of his time. Recovering his legacy and taking him out of his anonymity are the basic objectives of this doctoral thesis. The quality, depth and originality of the issues he addressed in his newspaper articles, together with his intellectual production, provide us with more than enough information to write his biography. The postcards he sent to his wife, María, and to his children, Felicidad, Helenio and Floreal from Almeria’s prison after the Spanish Civil War, awakened the interest in investigating his life. We start from few biographical details: he was a self-taught, journalist and politician whose dream was to reach his journalistic ambition, Madrid, and have 12 children which he fulfilled only in part. The civil war took him by surprise working for Claridad, but his family stayed in Huelva and they never met each other again. The investigation begins with the discovery of the Claridad articles. We found out that he worked as a war correspondent for the south band between August 1936 and March 1938. We found a letter he wrote in Salamanca to a republican army command offering himself to work in the Commissary, together with some other documents that placed him in Ciudad Real in 1938, his link to a CNT column and the special investigation carried out by the Masonry Special Tribunal and Communism Repression when he had already been dead for four years...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Departamento de Historia de la Comunicación Social, leída el 05-02-2016