Anatoli Borissowitsch Marienhof

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Anatoli Marienhof 1919

Anatoly Marienhof ( Russian Анатолий Борисович Мариенгоф * June 24 jul. / 6. July  1897 greg. In Nizhny Novgorod ; † 24. June 1962 in Leningrad ) was a Russian writer .

Life

He came from a noble family in Courland .

Marienhof was a representative of imaginism . His work had long been forgotten. It was not until the 1980s and 1990s that most of his novels and poems were reprinted.

Marienhof attended high school in Penza and was drafted into military service in 1916. His mother died while he was still in high school and his father died in the Russian Civil War . He came to Moscow in 1918 , where he met the young poet Sergei Alexandrovich Jessenin . The two poets were close friends; they lived together from 1918 to 1922. Together with the poets Ryurik Ivanev and Vadim Scherschenewitsch and the painters Boris Erdman and Georgi Jakulow they formed the group of imaginists, whose declaration they published in January 1919. After Marienhof had started to write his novel without lies , which revealed many details from Jessenin's life, he broke off his relationship with Marienhof in 1924. Marienhof now switched to writing novels, but from the 1930s onwards his works were rarely published and he was long forgotten in the USSR. In 1953–56 he wrote the autobiography My Century, My Youth , knowing that he would not be able to publish it during his lifetime.

Works

  • Conspiracy of Fools (1922)
  • Novel Without Lies: Memories (1927); Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1st edition 1984
  • Cynic (1927)
  • The Shaved Man (1928)
  • Ekaterina
  • Novel with Friends (1965)
  • The shaved man and cynic: two novels , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn-Verlag 2001, series Die Other Bibliothek , ISBN 978-3-8218-4502-9 .
  • Notes of a forty year old man . Translated from the Russian by Olga Martynova . In: Krachkultur 10/2004

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SURNAME Marienhof, Anatoly Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mariengof, Anatoli Borissowitsch (transcription); Мариенгоф, Анатолий Борисович (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Nizhny Novgorod
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1962
Place of death Leningrad