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Alexander Grin (1910)

Alexander Grin ( Russian Александр Грин , actually Alexander Stepanovich Grinewski ( Александр Степанович Гриневский ); born August 11 . Jul / 23. August  1880 greg. In Slobodskoi , †   8. July 1932 in Stary Krym ) was a Russian writer .

Life

Born under the name Alexander Stepanowitsch Grinewski, he was the son of an exiled participant in the Polish uprising of 1863. He completed his schooling in Vyatka in 1896 , then went to Odessa and began a life as a vagabond. He made his way through life in a wide variety of professions, including as a gold washer in the Urals , as a sailor , where he came into contact with many ports and languages, and as a fisherman . However, he was often unemployed and had to go begging. He received a little financial help from his father.

After signing up for service in the Russian army, he became a member of the then illegal Social Revolutionary Party during his military service . His agitation activities brought him to prison . During this time he began to write his first short stories, one of which was first published in a newspaper in 1906. In the same year he was arrested again in Saint Petersburg and exiled to the Tobolsk region for a period of four years . Since it was relatively easy to escape from exile during the Tsarist era, Grin quickly returned to Saint Petersburg and lived there illegally. He was arrested again in 1910 and exiled to the Arkhangelsk Governorate . He lived there on the island of Kegostrov and married Vera Pavlovna Abramova. In 1912 he returned to Saint Petersburg and divorced his wife. During this time, Grin mainly published short stories.

Monument to Alexander Grin in Stary Krym

Most of his major works were written by him after the October Revolution . He was a popular writer in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union during the first half of the 1920s . In 1921 he married his second wife Nina Nikolajewna Grin. From 1924 he lived with her in Feodosia on the Black Sea. He came into conflict with the party because of the content of his novels . As a result, his manuscripts were no longer accepted by publishers and he and his wife had to live in poverty. He suffered from alcoholism and tuberculosis. In 1930 he moved to Staryj Krym in the Kirovsk district , where he died of stomach cancer in 1932.

The work and its aftermath

His work is still very popular in Russia today. It is fantastic-fairytale-like to bizarre-Kafkaesque, with the latter particularly true of his short stories, which u. a. influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and ETA Hoffmann . In Der Pattenfänger , for example, an automobile develops a life of its own. Grin's novels and stories are set in fantasy landscapes. The use of melodious, associative, fictitious names of persons and places (such as Assol ) is striking . So he can be counted among the neo-romantic forerunners of magical realism .

Performance of the ballet Das Purpursegel on December 5, 1943 in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with the ballerina Olga Wassiljewna Lepeschinskaja as the girl Assol

His romantic fairy tale The Scarlet Sails wrote Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski (1915-1972), a ballet music . The story was filmed by Mosfilm in 1961 (see The Purple Sails ). In 1958, the Georgian Otar Ioseliani filmed watercolor for Soviet television. In 1972 the Czech director Juraj Herz brought Jessy and Morgiana to the screen as a horror film under the title Morgiana , both sisters being played by the actress Iva Janžurová . The 1976 Yugoslavian feature film The Rat God is based on Grin's novel The Pied Piper . The novels The Golden Chain and The Road to Nowhere were filmed in 1988 and 1992 by the Russian director Alexander Muratow . There are also other film adaptations by Jan Schmidt , Bulat Mansurow , Pavel Ljubimov , Oleg Tepsow and others.

Honors

The asteroid of the central main belt (2786) Grinevia and the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Grin (1984) are named after Grin .

Works

  • Captain Duk ( Капитан Дюк , short story, 1915)
  • The Purpursegel ( Алые паруса , Roman, 1923; German also Purpursegel , Rote Segel , Das feuerrote Segel )
  • The Sparkling World ( Блистающий мир , fantastic novel, 1923)
  • The Pied Piper ( Крысолов , short stories, 1924)
  • The white ball ( Белый шар , novel, 1924)
  • The golden chain ( Золотая цепь , novel, 1925)
  • Fandango ( Фанданго , short story, 1927)
  • Wogengleiter ( Бегущая по волнам , novel, 1928)
  • Watercolor ( Акварель , short story, 1928)
  • Jessy and Morgiana ( Джесси и Моргиана , novel, 1929)
  • The road to nowhere ( Дорога никуда , novel, 1930)
  • Автобиографическая повесть (autobiography, 1931)

literature

  • Ljudmila Vahlpahl (née Haraberjusch): Man and nature in the literary work of Aleksandr Grin with special attention to the works of the 1920s 1981, DNB 830511105 , OCLC 246294512 (Dissertation A University of Rostock 1982, 218 pages).

Web links

Commons : Alexander Grin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed September 15, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1978 RR 5 . Discovered 1978 Sept. 6 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
personal data
SURNAME Grin, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grinewski, Alexander; Grinowski, Alexander Stepanowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Slobodskoi
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1932
Place of death Stary Krym