Alexander Reiser

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Alexander Reiser (born February 9, 1962 in Hope Valley , Omsk Oblast ) is a Russian-German journalist and writer .

Life

Alexander Reiser's ancestors emigrated to Russia as colonists in 1778 and lived as Volga Germans in the village of Pfeiffer . They spoke an old Swabian dialect of German and kept that language in the family. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Reiser's grandparents were deported to Hope Valley in Siberia ; they were not allowed to return after the war.

Reiser only learned Russian at school in Omsk when he was six . Reiser did military service in the Soviet Army and was used in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline . He worked for three years as a seaman in deep-sea fishing, his career aspiration to work in the Soviet merchant navy, but was refused because he was counted among the politically unreliable German minority in the Soviet Union. In 1986 he studied journalism in Vladivostok and worked there as a journalist.

Reiser moved to Germany in 1996 with his wife and daughter as a late repatriate . His wife previously worked as a Japanese translator in Vladivostok . You live in Berlin-Hellersdorf . Since he cannot work in his job, he became managing director of the association of Russian Germans "Vision" in Berlin-Marzahn .

Works (selection)

  • The air pump: funny short stories . Illustrations by Jens Weber. Lage-Hörste: BMV-Verl. Burau, 2001
  • Vozraščenie odisseja . Lage-Hörste: BMV-Verl. Burau, 2002
  • with Reinhold Schulz (Ed.): 99 anecdotes from emigrants . Illustrations Lidia Fischer. Lage-Hörste: BMV-Verl. Burau, 2005
  • Seal hunt in Berlin: humorous stories from the life of an emigrant . Vechta: Geest-Verl., 2009

literature

  • Merle Hilbk: You're not a German! History, in: taz , April 6, 2013, p. 20
  • Irina Pohlan: Isolate or build bridges? Russian-German women writers between here and there . In: Birgit Menzel (ed.): Return to the foreign? : Ethnic remigration of Russian-German repatriates . Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2014 ISBN 978-3-86596-466-3 , pp. 101-114

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reiser describes the family language of his parents as Old Swabian
personal data
SURNAME Reiser, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hope Valley, Omsk Oblast