Ales Rasanau

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Ales Rasanau performing in Minsk in December 2011

Ales Szjapanawitsch Rasanau ( Belarusian Алесь Сцяпанавіч Разанаў ; born December 5, 1947 in Sjalez , Bjarosa Rajon , Belarusian SSR ; †  August 26, 2021 in Minsk , Belarus ) was a Belarusian writer , poet and translator .

Life

Ales Rasanau was born in 1947 in Sjalez ( Belarusian Сялец ), one of the oldest settlements in Belarus. His father, Stepan Ryazanov, came from Tambov Oblast . Before the Second World War he had come to Belarus as a participant in a geodetic expedition and settled there.

As a former prisoner in the Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, his father had also written poems. Rasanau began writing poetry at an early age. As early as the 6th grade, his small works were printed in the district magazine " Bjaroska " ( Belarusian "Бярозка" , "Birklein").

In the upper classes Rasanau often attended meetings of the literary association of the magazine " Beriozka ". He was also in Brest at the meeting of the literary association of the district newspaper “ Zarja ”. When he was in the 9th grade, he got into a seminar of young writers in Karalishchavichy. In January 1966 the newspaper " Literatur und Kunst " published a collection of Rasanau's poems. In 1966 he graduated from school. He then passed the entrance examination for the philological faculty of the Belarusian State University in Minsk in Minsk. His recording essay, written in poetry, was later published in the university newspaper.

In addition to his studies, he worked in a radiator company in Minsk. In his free time he attended both a literary circle and a circle on the general socio-political situation in Belarus. In October 1968 he published an appeal to the leadership of the republic, in which he demanded that teaching at the Belarusian department of the philological faculty should be in Belarusian . This letter, signed by hundreds of students, changed his life drastically. From that point on he was no longer seen as an excellent student but as a rebel. In the winter of 1969 Rasanau was de-registered from the Belarusian State University in Minsk. It was only thanks to the intervention of the writer Maksim Tank , who at the time was head of the Supreme Soviet, that Rasanau was allowed to continue his studies, but at the Brest Pedagogical Institute .

After graduating at the Brest Pedagogical Institute in 1970 Rasanau worked as a teacher of Belarusian language and literature at the secondary school in the village Kruhel the Kamenets District . From 1971 to 1972 he did his military service in Valdai .

1970 Rasanau published his first book entitled Renaissance ( Belarusian "Адраджэнне" ). Although many poems previously published did not appear in this collection and others were recklessly edited, the book received a wide public response.

The publication of this book gave Rasanau the opportunity to become a member of the Belarusian section in the Writers' Union of the USSR in 1972 and thus to return to Minsk in the creative capital society. He got a job with the newspaper " Literatur und Kunst ". However, his reputation as a nationalist did not keep him long with the then only intellectual Belarusian newspaper. He switched to the newspaper " Einheimische Natur ". Briefly he went on a business trip to Lithuania . From then on he worked as an interpreter. He translated from Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, German, Polish, Czech, Latvian and many other languages.

From 1974 to 1990 Rasanau worked in the editorial department of the literary criticism of the publishing house "Schöngeistige Literatur". From 1989 he was Vice President of the Belarusian PEN organization.

In the 1990s he became the head of the Belarusian Roerich Foundation and in 1992 a research assistant at the national Franzisk Skarina Center . From 1994 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine " Krynica " ("Quelle"), which he founded with like-minded people. He left this position in 1999 due to political pressure and increasingly accepted invitations from abroad, from Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Slovenia. So he lived in 2001 at the invitation of the International Writers' Parliament (IPW) in Hanover, which had joined the cities network for threatened and censored writers ("Cities of Asylum Network", today " International Cities of Refuge Network ") in 2000 , and There he was the first to receive the Hannah Arendt annual scholarship set up for this purpose. In 2003 he lived in Graz on a scholarship from this network; in 2007, as in 2001, he was a guest at the Berlin International Literature Festival and a fellow in the DAAD's Berlin artist program . In his last years he lived mostly in Germany . He also wrote and published many of his short poems in German. He died in Minsk in August 2021 at the age of 73.

Create

Ales Rasanau was one of the world's most famous Belarusian poets of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. He was considered a master of landscape poetry with deep philosophical-psychological content, a classic of free verse and one of the founders of the Belarusian haiku . Despite the independent way of thinking and writing independently, the poet's career developed rather smoothly. He was known in Belarusian literature as the author of new poetic forms.

He has translated from many languages, including the comedy Сон у летнюю ноч (“ A Midsummer Night's Dream ”) and two other comedies by William Shakespeare (1989), from the Lithuanian the novel Час, калі пусцеюць сядзібы (“Time of the Desolate Courtyards”) Jonas Avyžius (1989) and poems selected from Latvian by Uldis Bērziņš (2013). For the hundredth birthday of Janka Kupala in 1982 he published the selection of poems Выйду з сэрцам, як з паходняй! .. (“I go with my heart as with a torch!”).

factories

  • 1970: Адраджэньне ("Renaissance")
  • 1974: Назаўжды ("Forever")
  • 1976: Каардынаты быцьця ("Coordinates of Existence ")
  • 1981: Шлях - 360 ("The Way - 360")
  • 1988: Вастрыё стралы ("tip of the arrow")
  • 1992: У горадзе валадарыць Рагвалод ("Ragvalod rules the city")
  • 1994: Паляванне ў райскай даліне ("Paradiestal Hunt ")
  • 1995: signs of vertical time. Poemes, verses, dots, reflections. (= Erato print. 28). Agora, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87008-124-4 . (Translator: Elke Erb ).
  • 2000: Гліна. Камень. Жалеза ("clay. Stone. Iron.")
  • 2002: Dance with the Snakes. Selection of poems. (= Erato print. 31). Agora, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87008-132-5 . (Translator: Elke Erb and Uladsimir Tschapeha).
  • 2002: Hanoverian punctures. Post-poetry: Oskar Ansull . Revonnah-Verlag, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-934818-51-X .
  • 2003: word density. Steirische Verlags-Gesellschaft, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-85489-100-8 .
  • 2005: Кніга ўзнаўленняў ("The Book of Restoration")
  • 2005: Лясная дарога: версэты ("forest path")
  • 2006: Каб мелі шчасце ўваскрасаць і лётаць: паэмы ("If we were lucky enough to rise and fly")
  • 2006: The branch shows the tree where to grow. Poems. With an afterword by Ilma Rakusa . (= Erato print. 33). Agora, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87008-137-6 .
  • 2007: Дождж: возера ў акупунктуры: пункціры ("Rain: The Lake in Acupuncture")
  • 2007: the third eye. Dots. Engeler, Basel / Weil am Rhein 2007, ISBN 978-3-938767-41-2 . (Translator: Elke Erb).
  • 2009: Пчала пачала паломнічаць: вершаказы ("The bee begins to make a pilgrimage")
  • 2009: Сума немагчымасцяў: зномы ("Sadness of Impossibility")
  • 2010: Воплескі даланёю адною: пункціры ("One-handed applause")
  • 2010: З апокрыфа ў канон: гутаркі, выступленні, нататкі ("From Apocryphal to Canon: Conversations, Speeches, Articles")
  • 2011: З: Вяліміра Хлебнікаваv ("3: by Valymyr Hlebnikov")
  • 2011: І потым нанава пачаць: квантэмы, злёсы, вершы ("And then start again")
  • 2011: The moon thinks, the sun ponders. Word density. Lohvinau, Minsk 2011, ISBN 978-985-6991-30-4 . (Месяц думае, сонца разважае) .
  • 2016: From near and far. New word density . Vilnius and Minsk, ISBN 978-985-562-051-3 .

recognition

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilma Rakusa : Life always leads people to the edge of life - to the death of the great Belarusian poet Ales Rasanau , nzz.ch, published and accessed on August 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ a b c Ales Rasanau [Belarus]. In: International Literature Festival Berlin. 2021 .;
personal data
SURNAME Rasanau, ales
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasanau, Ales Szjapanawitsch; Rasanau, AS; Разанаў, Алесь Сцяпанавіч (Cyrillic, Belarusian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian writer, poet and translator
BIRTH DATE December 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Sjalez , Belarusian SSR
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Minsk