Mikhail Kuzmich Ryklin

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Mikhail Kuzmitsch Ryklin ( Russian Михаил Кузьмич Рыклин ; born January 6, 1948 in Leningrad ) is a Russian philosophy professor and author .

Life

Michail Ryklin was born as the son of the military doctor Kusma Ryklin and his wife Stalina, daughter of the secret service officer Sergei Pavlovich Tschaplin and the teacher of Russian literature Vera Michajlowna Levintowa. In 1965 the family moved to Moscow. Ryklin studied philosophy and aesthetics at the Moscow State University a . a. with Merab Mamardaschwili and received his doctorate in the history of philosophy in 1978 with a thesis on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean-Jacques Rousseau . In 1995 Ryklin became a correspondent for the German edition of the European cultural magazine Lettre International . Since 1997 he has headed the Department of Philosophical Anthropology at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow .

His book With the Law of the Stronger , published in Germany in 2006 . Russian culture in the age of “managed democracy ” was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2007 .

Ryklin was married to the artist Anna Altschuk ( Anna Michaltschuk ) since 1975 . The couple had lived in Berlin-Witzleben since November 2007 , while Ryklin was visiting professor at Berlin's Humboldt University . On April 10, 2008, his wife was found dead at the Mühlendamm lock on the Spree . Ryklin assumes a suicide . In his very personal book about Anna , published in 2014 (in the Russian original 2013), Ryklin dedicates himself to Alchuk's diaries, on the basis of which he again - in contrast to numerous press speculations that assume murder - considers suicide to be the most likely .

From March 1 to 3, 2013, he worked at the Sakharov Center in Moscow as an actor in Milo Rau's The Moscow Trials . In the 2014/2015 winter semester, Ryklin was a fellow at the International Morphomata College at the University of Cologne .

Works

  • Life thrown into the fire - The generation of the Great October. A research. From the Russian by Sabine Grebing and Volker Weichsel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42773-6 ( reading sample )
  • Book about Anna. V. Gabriele Leupold , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42434-6 (Russian: Pristan 'dionisa , 2013)
  • Communism as religion. The intellectuals and the October Revolution. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 9783458710103 ( reading sample ) (Russian 2009)
  • Deconstruction and destruction. Conversations. Diaphanes Verlag, Zurich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3935300522
  • With the right of the fittest. Russian culture in times of “managed democracy”. Essay. Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3518124722
  • Rooms of jubilation - totalitarianism and difference. Essays. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3518123165
  • Secret border. Letters from Moscow 1995-2003. Diaphanes Verlag, Zurich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3935300301

Fonts

  • Behind the mirrors: On the history of the border between Russia and Europe . In: Transit (European Review) Transit 16, 1998–99, pp. 158–166.
  • Russian excesses. In: Lettre International. LI 100, spring 2013, pp. 73-76.
  • On the wings of liberated collective speech. Translated from the Russian by Gabriele Leupold . In: Utopia and Violence. Andrei Platonov . Writing the modern (= Eastern Europe , issue 8-10 / 2016). Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3658-1 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mikhail Kuzmich Ryklin: Life thrown into the fire - The generation of the Great October. A research. From the Russian by Sabine Grebing and Volker Weichsel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, p. 323 ff.
  2. ↑ For the Russians, democracy means robbery. Interview in: Tages-Anzeiger from October 1, 2011
  3. ↑ Dirk Pilz: The "Moscow Trials": Society in front of the court . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 5, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ The staged loneliness in FAZ from January 31, 2015, page 18
personal data
SURNAME Ryklin, Mikhail Kuzmich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Михаил Кузьмич Рыклин
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad