Alexander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin

Alexander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin

Performance of Tarelkin's Death directed by Yevgeny Tyschtschuk

Alexander Vasilyevich Suchowo-Kobylin ( Russian Александр Васильевич Сухово-Кобылин ;. Scientific transliteration Aleksandr Vasil'evič Suchovo-Kobylin ; born September 17, ^jul. / 29. September  1817 ^greg. In Moscow , Russian Empire , died on 24. March 1903 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer , Dép. Alpes-Maritimes , France ) was a Russian writer and playwright .

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The aristocratic author studied at Moscow State University from 1834 to 1838 . From 1839 to 1842 he attended further lectures in philosophy in Heidelberg and Berlin. Since 1902 he was an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences . His involvement in a sensational murder case - he was arrested in 1850 on suspicion of murdering his lover Louise Simon-Demanche and not acquitted until 1857 - became one of the great scandals of 19th century Russian society . Under the influence of his trial, Sukhovo-Kobylin created a drama trilogy ( Kretschinski's Wedding - The Acts - Tarelkin's Death ) from the drama of his life , the plays of which were notable for the sharpness of their satire, which was directed against the tsarist bureaucracy and jurisdiction , and not only for this reason ever since again received attention. In their theatricality, they embrace various theater traditions, from the Pièce bien faite Eugène Scribes to the absurd comedy Gogol . As a whole, the trilogy was published in 1869 under the title Pictures from the Past ( Kartiny proschedschewo ). The trilogy was included in the Russian book series Library of World Literature ( Biblioteka wsemirnoi literatury ).

Works

Trilogy of drama

• Kretschinski's wedding (Swadba Kretschinskogo / Свадьба Кречинского / Svad'ba Krečinskogo). Comedy in three acts *
• The file (Delo / Дело / Delo). Drama in five acts *
• Tarelkin's death (Smert Tarelkina / Смерть Тарелкина / Smert 'Tarelkina). Comedy in three acts *

Translations :

• Kretschinski's wedding. Comedy in 3 acts . Translated by Ena von Baer . Manuscript. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1953.
• Tarellkin's death. Farce in three acts . Translated by Sigismund von Radecki . Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1959.
• Kretschinski's marriage. Comedy in 3 acts . Translated by Sigismund von Radecki. Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1966.
• Tarelkin's death. Comedy in 3 acts . Translated by Ingeborg Gampert. Manuscript. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1974.
• Tarelkin's death. Farce in 3 parts . Translated by Heiner Müller . Manuscript. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1977.
• The file . Translated by Regine Kühn . Manuscript. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1977.
• Tarelkin's Death, or The Vampire of St. Petersburg. Farce in three acts . Translated and edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . Publishing house of the authors , Frankfurt am Main 1981.

• Harold B. Segel (Ed.): The Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays: The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin . Harwood Academic Publishers, Australia, 1995 ISBN 3-7186-5694-9 (Russian Theater Archive Series; Vol. 7) ( book trade link )

References and footnotes

1. ↑ whoswho.de: Aleksandr Wasiljewitsch Suchowo-Kobylin (accessed on March 6, 2017)
2. ↑ Russian Kartiny proschedschewo / Картины прошедшего / Kartiny prošedšego
3. ↑ publ.lib.ru : "Библиотека Всемирной Литературы"

literature

• Majja Jakovlevna Bessarab: Suchovo-Kobylin. Moskva Sovremennik, 1981 (Biblioteka "Ljubiteljam rossijskoj slovesnosti")
• Walter Kosglich: On the poetics of the trilogy of drama: AV Suchovo-Kobylin's “Pictures of the Past” . (Slavic literatures) Peter Lang 1993, ISBN 978-3-631-46041-2
• Prince DS Mirsky: A History of Russian Literature . Northwestern University Press, 1958

Web links

• Works and further information (Russian)
• Suchowo Kobylin trilogy "Images from the past drawn from nature" - ( Volksbühne Berlin )