Alexei Michailowitsch Remisow

Aleksey Remizov ( Russian : Алексей Михайлович Ремизов ; emphasis : * June 24 Aleksey Remizov ^{. Jul} / 6. July 1877 ^{. Greg} in Moscow ; † 26. November 1957 in Paris ) was a Russian writer .

Life

Remisow was born the son of a merchant. He first attended business school and then studied mathematics and physics at Moscow University . In 1897 he was exiled to northern Russia (including Vologda ) because of his participation in a student demonstration . There he tried to organize a strike in Penza , which earned him a new conviction. Now he occupied himself with the Russian language, with Russian proverbs, wrote and published his first stories, and also took part in theatrical productions. Around 1900 he met his future wife, the translator Serafima Dowgello .

In 1905 he returned from exile and moved to Saint Petersburg , where he worked as an employee of the magazine Woprosy shisni .

Remisow, who was described as an eccentric by those around him, initially tried his hand as an actor, set and make-up artist, singer and painter. He also dreamed of becoming a pyrotechnician. Ultimately, he had the greatest success as a writer.

Remisow belonged to Russian Symbolism , but also extends into Surrealism . He was associated with Alexander Blok , Anna Akhmatova , Iwan Bunin and Michail Kuzmin , among others . The focus of his work was always the dream , these were both his own and imaginary dreams. His style, which was shaped by the vernacular, was interspersed with dialectal and archaic elements and was considered "ornamental".

In 1921 Remisow emigrated to Berlin and settled in Paris in 1923, where he died in 1957.

Works

Novels

The clock (1904, Russian: Часы)
The pond (1905, Russian: Пруд)
Sisters in the Cross (1910, Russian: Крестовые сёстры)
The fifth plague (1912)
Gang auf Simsen, translated from the Russian by Annelore Nitschke , Suhrkamp 1991

Legends

Leimonarium (1907–1911)

Fairy tale collection

Sonnenlauf (1906, Russian: Посолон)
Princess Mymra. Novellas and dreams. Weimar 1917

memoirs

With clipped eyes (1957, Russian: Подстриженными глазами)

literature

Ilja Ehrenburg : People - Years - Life (Memoirs), Munich 1962, special edition Munich 1965, Volume II 1923–1941, pp. 51–57 (portrait), ISBN 3-463-00512-3
Thomas Urban : Russian Writers in Berlin in the Twenties , Berlin: Nicolai, 2003, pp. 22–31; ISBN 3-89479-097-0 , 78-99.

Web links

Commons : Aleksey Remizov - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Adrian Wanner: Miniature Worlds - Russian prose poems from Turgenev to Charms; Chapter: Short biographies and notes (bilingual anthology) . Pano Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-907576-73-X , p. 208 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Remisow, Alexei Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ремизов, Алексей Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1957
Place of death	Paris

[:0-1] A ^b ^c Adrian Wanner: Miniature Worlds - Russian prose poems from Turgenev to Charms; Chapter: Short biographies and notes (bilingual anthology) . Pano Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-907576-73-X , p. 208 f .