Ales Adamovich

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Ales Adamovich

Aliaksandr (Ales) Adamovich ( Belarusian Аляксандр (Алесь) Міхайлавіч Адамовіч ; * 3. September 1927 in the village Konjuchi in the Minsk Region ; †  26. January 1994 in Moscow ) was a Belarusian writer , critic and literary scholar .

Life

Adamowitsch fought in partisan units against the Wehrmacht in the Babrujsk region from 1943 to 1944 . He fought his way behind the front lines alone and lived in the Altai region until the end of the war .

After the war he studied from 1945 to 1950 at the Philological Faculty of the Belarusian State University in Minsk , and but then taught there from 1964 to 1966 and at the State Lomonosov University Moscow , Belarusian literature . Adamowitsch was also a research assistant and head of the literature department of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR . In 1982 Adamovich took part in the 38th session of the UN General Assembly as a member of the Belarusian delegation. In 1987 he became director of the Cinematographic Institute in Moscow. From 1989 he was a member of the Belarusian PEN club.

Adamowitsch has appeared again and again with his own publications since 1950: novels, short stories, scripts that have been filmed several times, literary studies and reviews. He wrote in Russian and Belarusian. Some of his own prose works, but also the documentary works in which he allowed contemporary witnesses to have their say, became known. The literary process of the latter inspired not least the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich .

In 1988 Adamowitsch was one of the founding members of the human rights organization Memorial and the Partyja BNF . He was also People's Deputy of the USSR and campaigned for independence from Belarus.

Honors

In 1999 the asteroid (6537) Adamovich was named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Война под крышами (1960, novel, German: The war under the roofs )
  • Сыновья уходят в бой (1963, novel, German: The sons go into battle )
  • Хатынская аповесць (1972, 1976, novel, German: The story of Khatyn )
  • Karateli (1982, Roman German: "Executioners - The happiness of the sea or life descriptions of Hyperboreans ")
  • Иди и смотри (1985, screenplay for the film of the same name, German: Come and see )
  • Я з вогненнай вёскі ... (1975, documentation, together with Ja. Bryl and U. Kamenski, German: I come from the fire village )
  • Блокадная книа (1979, documentation, together with Daniil Granin , German: The Blockade Book )
  • Der Mute (novella, filmed in 2006 as Franz i Polina with Adrian Topol , German: Franz + Polina - A love in war )
  • The last pastoral (translated by Uwe Groth and Nina Letnewa), Galgenberg, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-925387-43-9 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b c Wojciech Roszkowski , Jan Kofman (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, Abingdon et al. 2015, ISBN 978-0-7656-1027-0 , p. 8.
  2. ↑ a b c Dirk Holtbrügge : Belarus. 2nd edition, Munich, Beck, 2002. p. 120
  3. ↑ Nobel Prize for Literature for Swetlana Alexijewitsch , hanser-literaturverlage.de
personal data
SURNAME Adamovich, Ales
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamowitsch, Alexander Michailowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian writer, critic and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Konjuchi, Minskaya Woblasz
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1994
Place of death Moscow