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Interview with Jaume Miravitlles

Date
1974
Archive
Municipal Archive of Barcelona
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-AHCB-AHCB3-311-Miravitlles
Link to the online document
Description

Jaume Miravitlles (Figueres 1906-Barcelona 1988) was a very active politician, publicist, writer, filmmaker and pro-independence activist. He belonged to different parties: Catalan State, Catalan Communist Party, Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc and later Republican Left. One of his most relevant roles was that of director of the Propaganda Commissariat of the Generalitat during the Civil War. He also created the production companies Laya Films and Catalònia Films. After the Spanish Civil War he went into exile in France and then lived in North Africa, Mexico and finally in the United States. A tireless worker, he intervened throughout his life in numerous actions, associations and organizations and published articles in newspapers, magazines as well as various works.
The British historian Ronald Fraser interviewed him in 1974 as part of his collection of testimonies from the Spanish Civil War. Miravitlles explained to him, among other things, his experience in the organization of the Popular Olympics in Barcelona (he was its secretary). Also known as the Popular Week of Sport and Folklore, it wanted to be an anti-fascist response to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, which, however, could not be held due to the military uprising of General Franco.